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Have to remember it is really our money that they are send back to us!<br><br>This isn't income for 2008/09", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-09_16:00:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "e18f43bd19856fec66b3636df3c5f224", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/09/2008 04:00 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What I have not been able to determine is, what is the elegibility for the 2008 tax credit? Is it the same as for the rebate? As someone who (luckily as some might see it) is inelegible for the rebate due to income, will the tax credit help me, or will that go in the toilet as well?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-09_16:38:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "84e04fcdbc6f762e7bc2cfb09a13f76c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/09/2008 04:38 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311683": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi,<br>  I think that saying \"the rebate that will be sent out in May 2008 is a credit to the taxes you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll owe on 2008 income.\" leaves people with the idea that this is just an advance refund and will mean less of a refund that they would have gotten otherwise in 2009.  This is free money that you wouldn't have gotten otherwise.  A better way to say it is that it is a new tax credit which you are getting now and will be reflected on your 2008 return (i.e., it will show as a credit on your 2008 return, but then will be balanced by the payment that the Government has already made, for a net of $0)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-09_17:36:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "45a09de02d694e5d4d7855fea5458509", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/09/2008 05:36 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311684": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Am I reading this correctly?  If they give a taxpayer a rebate and then they determine that they gave him too much, they are letting him keep the difference?  That is awful nice of them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-09_23:26:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "7b46c1b26b025baab92756d37e28b9ba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/09/2008 11:26 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So...am I totally dense here, or does this mean you probably should put that money aside to pay taxes in 2009? At that point the amount you owe goes back to normal or maybe even rises to take account of the amount the government has dispensed from funds it needed to operate. <br><br>Not that I didn't intend to put whatever rebate I get (and I'll believe it when I see it) into savings anyhow...but it would be good to know if we get to keep it or if we have to hand it back over a year from now.<br><br>Personally, I think I'd rather just pay my taxes, keep the government functioning on track, and not get jacked around.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-10_09:42:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "e2adaaabcd164b1554468f9cc383a9df", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/10/2008 09:42 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you income/tax brackets stay relatively the same from 2007 to 2008, you will not need to set the money aside (although it is a good idea to invest it rather than spend it.)  <br><br>The will be tax credits on your 2008 return that should offset the rebate you receive in May.  The net effect on your 2008 return \"should be\" zero.  <br><br>In other words, if they were not issuing a rebate in May.  The credit would lower your 2008 tax liability on your 2008 return - either producing a lower amount due to the IRS or a higher refund.  The rebate is just an advance payment of that credit.<br><br>I agree, keep things simple.  If they want to give a credit they should just wait until you file your return to give it to you.  I wonder what the administrative cost is to run this \"rebate\" program at the IRS instead of just letting it happen naturally on tax returns.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-10_12:07:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "7b46c1b26b025baab92756d37e28b9ba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/10/2008 12:07 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My understanding is that it is an advance on your 2008 taxes. Your refund for next year could be less and your payment could be more, depending on what your 2007 taxes were.<br><br>I would rather have a permanent tax reduction then this temporary relief. It does nothing but fuel a person's material dependency and greed that will leave a hole in your soul in the coming months. <br><br>Does anyone know what the best investment would be with the tax relief?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-11_12:17:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "c6c4b09f6ad94ef578a7728aac7d840e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/11/2008 12:17 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interesting. So one more reason to get our AGI lower on our 2007 taxes. Although, since they passed this after year end it's a little late for most strategies to do this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-11_15:49:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "5259bc5ab71dc223a669905930724657", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/11/2008 03:49 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So- The government is going to give me $1800 (Married filing jointly, 2 kids)- as an \"advance rebate\" to my 2008 tax bill. <br><br>This year I only owe about $1600 in taxes.<br><br>What happens next year  if I also only owe $1600? they gave me an $1800 advance- Will I need to pay back $200?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-11_17:07:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "6437b05a3eb7e79673546f867dd7e639", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/11/2008 05:07 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "if i made 2,436 will ibe able 2 gt the rebate check", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-11_17:54:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "7b3041b3cbb1ee47e55d98f2c68783b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/11/2008 05:54 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WOW..<br><br>Is it going to come in the mail or do I need to request it. This is kind of hard to believe that the IRS is just going to give us ALL checks. Like the other girl said, I will believe it when I see it. <br><br>Seriously, does anyone know how you get it. Do I have to go to a professional to get the money back?<br><br>HELP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-12_13:53:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "9a4fd0ffcd3abbdc4e6800d967584ce2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/12/2008 01:53 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311692": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I will just come in the mail.  As long as you have filed your 2007 return, you do not need to do anything.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-12_15:05:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "7b46c1b26b025baab92756d37e28b9ba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/12/2008 03:05 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That should read \"It will just come in the mail.\"  I personally will not be coming in the mail.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-12_15:05:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "7b46c1b26b025baab92756d37e28b9ba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/12/2008 03:05 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I would get a $1500 tax rebate.  THe way I read it is that next year even if I owe taxes I don't pay it.  What is to stop me from maxing out my allowances on my w-4 if I don't have to pay it back?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-12_20:11:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "2a6341c6bf64807732642323d67ac2cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/12/2008 08:11 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "more bad than good in my opinion. Besides,  I owe way more than what i'd get so i'll  stick to filing on the 15th.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-13_00:25:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "2a71ee47c3878fdb656e435844ce6674", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/13/2008 12:25 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What happens if you don't originally qualify based on your 2007 return (due to a high AGI) but would qualify due to a drop in AGI on the 2008 return?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-13_05:59:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "d06921c0b2a2627c15bfa1ea3b309e77", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/13/2008 05:59 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, the rebate only applies to persons that made $3,000 or over in the year of 2007.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-13_10:19:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "4c17aeb738cd939115ec39ef534e055a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/13/2008 10:19 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think to simplify things everyone who had $3,000 of income from a job or social security needs to be sure to file 2007 taxes.  Next, the IRS will mail you a check for the amount of stimulus money (I don't say rebate because that seems to add to the confusion) that you qualify for based on your 2007 tax filing.  Do your 2008 taxes as normal next year. If based on your 2008 tax status you now qualify for a larger stimulus check it can be claimed as a refundable credit.<br><br>As an example, in 2007 I was a full time student who was claimed as a dependent on my parents taxes (which disqualifies me from receiving the credit based on 2007 tax filings).  If during 2008 my status changes so I am no longer a dependent, then when I file my 2008 taxes (in March 2009) I can claim a credit equal to the stimulus money ($600 or $300 depending on income).<br><br>Here is another example.  I file my 2007 taxes jointly with my wife and had less than $150,000 in income but more than $3,000.  Based on our 2007 tax filings we will receive a check for $1,200 from the IRS as our stimulus money.  During the year 2008 our gross income is again within the limits and my wife gives birth to a baby (so we now have one dependent). We can now claim a $300 tax credit on our 2008 taxes because we now have a dependent.<br><br>As a final example, consider that in 2007 you file as a single filer and had income of $60,000.  You qualify for $600 in stimulus money that will arrive from the IRS as a check in summer 2008.  During 2008 you change jobs and get a large raise so you make $100,000 in 2008 and again file as a single person.  You now technically exceed the income limit for the stimulus money, but because the government was nice you do not have to pay any of the $600 back.  You simply file as normal and ignore that you even got that stimulus money.  <br><br>On the flip side of this situation, if you had only $1,000 of income in 2007 but had $3,001 in 2008 you could claim a $300 credit on your 2008 taxes.  In other words, if you qualify in either year you get the money (all that changes is if you get it this summer or when you file your 2008 taxes) and if you qualified in one year but not the other the IRS does not require you to pay any of it back and nothing bad happens tax wise.<br><br>I hope this explanation helps those who are confused.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-13_17:11:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "45d00088de754222680c3801fabd5dd3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/13/2008 05:11 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've heard numberous different scenarios.<br><br>1. This stimulus is not a \"rebate\" by definition. It is an advance. I've heard it will be considered income and taxable at the appropriate taxable percentage (Say %15).<br><br>2. It is an advance that will require 100% payback in 2008 taxes.<br><br>3. It is a \"rebate\" you are not expect to pay back.<br><br>I personally qualify for $2100.00 \"rebate\" and have no desire to receive this money if it's nothing more than a one year interest free loan I will be expected to return in April of 09!<br><br>Looking forward to hearing specifics. I find it tough to believe it a \"Rebate\" by definition.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-13_22:32:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "5e8c04b3f9000b9e4ff71051899b7d10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/13/2008 10:32 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scotty: Neither of your scenarios are correct, but number 3 is the closest.  It is an advance, but it will not be considered income.  It is simply an advance of a new credit that will be included on tax forms for 2008.  You don't have to pay it back.  In fact, if you qualify for a higher credit when doing your 2008 taxes next year (thanks to a new child, for example), the IRS will send you the difference.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-13_22:36:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/13/2008 10:36 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Most people are not getting the idea of this whole tax rebate. The money you will get is to help our economy. Basically they are giving you a \"surprise\" check thinking that you will just go and spend the money. Most people now-a-days are saving there money because of the rising costs. So with the \"surprise\" check they are pretty much HOPING you will spend the money on shopping and stuff. If you don't except the rebate this year then they will just give it to you next year. You don't have to pay anything back to the IRS...AT ALL EVER!! They just want money back in the economy. In my opinion it's a stupid idea!! I LOVE MONEY but this was not a smart move from Bush.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_01:09:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "2278952735e99f1608c2d41b4ce9a00c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 01:09 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311702": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If anyone is like me I'll be saving it all, i plan to put it in my <a href=\"http://ingdirect.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">ingdirect.com</a> savings account it gets about 4.1% hell of alot more then basic bank savings account.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_06:08:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "bcfce745a2d62393eead3342003b36f0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 06:08 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know that this check is an advance on a credit will appear in the 2008 tax forms/year (i.e. forms that will report income earned in 2008 and that will be filed during the 2009 tax filing season).<br><br>That said, this 'rebate'/stimulus check shouldn't reduce any potential refund I'd get next year, correct?  If anything, it would increase same via a change in status (i.e a child born in 2008).<br><br>For example, this year let's say I'm expecting a $2,700 refund.  If nothing changed, this was 2009 and I'd ordinarily get another $2,700 refund for my 1040 (i.e. for income earned in 2008), would this then be reduced to $1,200 because of this year's $1,500 check?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_09:55:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "f2b7c360b2fc34bda8f5fc3a2799734b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 09:55 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "GHR5: Your second paragraph is correct.  The credit advance you receive this year will not reduce your normal refund next year.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_10:03:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 10:03 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you, Flexo.  I'm new to your blog as of this morning.  Great spot.  I'll be back often!  Have a good day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_10:06:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "f2b7c360b2fc34bda8f5fc3a2799734b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 10:06 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311706": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i dont think it will reduce your refund when you file your 2008 taxes in early 2009.  its my understanding that if you lived in a cave and didnt file 2007 taxes, you would have a line item on your 2008 taxes to get this rebate.  but the government wants us to have the money now, so they are giving it to us NOW (an advance).  but if you take it now, then you cant take it AGAIN on the 2008 taxes.  At that point, you go on calculating your normal 2008 refund and it would not be effected by the advance.  Basically...the government wants to give us a gift on next year's taxes, but they just want to do it NOW instead of THEN...everything else will be the same.  Is this correct?  This is my understanding but i am not 100% sure of this.  any help?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_10:25:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "a0758c4b3874e5c1184f5837a3f4ae77", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 10:25 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dave: You're right -- the only thing you missed is that if a re-calculation of the credit when you file your 2008 taxes shows that you should have received *more* (due to an additional child in 2008, for example), then you will receive the difference as a credit on your return.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_10:36:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 10:36 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love how people think this is free money and will not have to be paid back.  I understand that this rebate will not have any effects on 2008 tax refund or liability, but there are other costs.  Has anyone considered the inflation that the creation of this money will cause? Well guess what, thats what it is going to cost.  Plus the govenrment isn't going to operate in 2008 with less money, so while we get it from one side they will find a way to recoup it from another.  Remember, there is no such thing as a free lunch!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_10:53:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "02d16f948a9312cee8f05381c9e1c4d0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 10:53 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's say you are a family of three and you get the same refund every year, $1000.  So in 2007 you get $1000, in 2008, you get $1000 and in 2009 you get $1000.  This is how the law changes it.<br><br>In 2009 your refund you would be $2500 thanks to the new law.  Your original $1000 plus the new $1200 for you and your spouse and the $300 for your child.<br><br>Instead of the government making you wait till you file your 2009 return, they are advancing you the $1500 of that 2009 refund in May of 2008.<br><br>So when you file your 2009 taxes you will still get your original $1000 back.<br><br>Now if you have a child this year, you will add another dependant to your 2009 taxes.  This will get you another $300 in your refund in 2009.  Since you already received a check for all of your dependants on the forms you filled out in 2008.<br><br>So in 2008 you have 3 dependants = $1500<br>In 2009 you have 4 dependants = $1800<br>You already received $1500, so you get to claim the difference $300.  Your $1000 refund will now jump to $1300.<br><br>To make it simple for math, let's say one of your dependants dies and you can't claim them in 2009 return.  You don't have to give back the advance you received in May. The government lets you keep the extra money.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_11:00:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "0ee992e52e1700283e85419ef7e767ba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 11:00 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "By the way, I know in 2009 you file your 2008 return, but many people just don't understand that and go by the year they file.  So I tried to simplfy it for that reason.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_11:04:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "0ee992e52e1700283e85419ef7e767ba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 11:04 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311711": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You have to learn to spell in order to get the refund. This means that Bush will not recieve one either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_11:48:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "0cdd3bb0838f50bc93e5e8a28e6bb63a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 11:48 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apparently neither will you \"dumb checker\"...  it's recEIve.  :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_13:38:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "2c060eb13ee16dd2ccfaa68a5ad3f213", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 01:38 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What kind of credit is this new 2008 credit?  Example:<br>Suppose Tax Table says the Tax is $900.<br>With 2 children the \"Child Tax Credit\" offset is $2000, which brings the Tax Due to $0.  The \"Additional Child Tax Credit\" amount is $1,200 but is applied after the \"Tax Due\" is figured along with $95 already withheld for a total refund of $1295.  The \"Child Tax Credit\" is figured under \"Taxes and Credits\" while the \"Additional Child Tax Credit\" is figured under \"Payments\".  <br>1. Is the new Credit going to be figured off of the \"Tax\" amount before other credits to determine eligibility.<br>2. Is the new Credit going to be applied before or after the \"Total Tax\" (example. 2007 1040 line 63) total is figured.<br>Knowing \"where\" this knew \"Credit\" will be applied on the 2008 Tax forms will help us know what to expect.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_14:29:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "1f64dcecc63610e2c755234634e4829e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 02:29 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311714": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In signing the stimulus package, did this eliminate the current child tax credit of $1000 for tax year 2008?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_16:25:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "d31dec298af4138af5531cf6faf57e43", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 04:25 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was wondering if your 2007 tax refund was offset for child support will the rebate be offset as well?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_18:48:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "1449f4fa874e3a68342dc34df0eed929", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 06:48 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Moe: There's no legislation that I know of to eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit.<br><br>kimm: If you receive child support, it will not be considered when determining your earned income for the purpose of the calculator.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_19:28:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 07:28 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311717": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "if you make at least 3000 in income, including social security benefits , you will be eligible for 300 per individual, 600 for mfj staus. If you had any tax liability up to 600 for individual, 1200 for mfj, you will get that amount. also for any child who qualifies for the child tax credit and is your dependant you recieve 300 per child. Now, next year when you file your taxes there is going to be a new credit applied to tax liability that you wont actually get. But you will not have to pay any of the stimulas refund back. maybe this will help clear things up.qualifying social security does not enclude ssi.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_21:51:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "efd2b90c3eb4aebf9f0cefca54c52cd2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 09:51 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So, it this tax credit a way to stave off a recession until the Democrats get into office?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-14_23:03:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "440995e36aa243593d399fb12146b250", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2008 11:03 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK, so just to make sure that i'm understanding this correctly. <br><br>We are a family of 3, married filing jointly, with 1 child. WE recieved a refund of around $1500 this year, for the 2007 tax refund. <br><br>So, in May we will get $1500 (according to what are income is in 2007 adn having a child)<br><br>So when we file our taxes in early 2009 for the 2008 tax season, then there will be a line for the tax stimulus package. IF we get a check in May (or there abouts) then in 2009 when we file our 2008 returns, we will still get our regular $1500 (or so give or take) refund in 2009??? (unless of course we add a new tax credit by having a child or buying a home in 2008, in which case we get more in our returns) . So, they are basically spliting up our tax returns for the 2008 tax year, and sending us the extra now, and then our regular refund in early 2009? Am i understanding this correctly. So, we will get a refund in 2009, and the \"rebate\" we get in May will not be subtracted from our normal refund we would be intitled to in 2009, due to over withholding from our paychecks? Correct??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-15_16:21:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "02210f5ea14e065f068a53aa053f8561", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/15/2008 04:21 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311720": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ok. <br>Just found new info on IRS website with examples.  Finally.<br>The eligibility is figured on Tax liability BEFORE the Child Tax Credit is applied.<br><br>Still don't know if the New Rebate Credit shows up as a positive number, on the final 2008 returns, figured under the Payments section or if it is figured under Credits and Taxes, like the Child Tax Credit, to achieve a not less than 0 Tax Amount.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-15_17:42:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "1f64dcecc63610e2c755234634e4829e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/15/2008 05:42 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Quick question, please:<br><br>My husband receives Social Security disability benefits (NOT SSI).  Because these are not taxable they are not reported on our tax returns so will this income be included in the calculation for the rebate?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-15_17:57:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "a67b5e277fd0991b942fdd8205657539", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/15/2008 05:57 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Question,... If my only income in 2007 was from Unemployment (Taxable and definately was taxed) and also from closing out my retirement and the seriously taxed me on that too. I also had a small paycheck from my employer. Only like 200 dollars but all added were more than 3,000 dollars.<br>My question is, would I qualify for the rebate or the new credit in 2009 ( for 2008 tax year) ??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-16_00:54:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "c5f3ec77fb04d4b93cc7c12a560de6b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/16/2008 12:54 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For everyone curious about whether they'll receive the rebate and how much, please <a href=\"http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2008/01/28/economic-stimulus-tax-rebate-calculator/\" rel=\"nofollow\">use this calculator</a>, paying close attention to the detailed instructions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-16_00:57:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/16/2008 12:57 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Betsy, the answer is yes.<br><br>Instead of getting $3000 next year, you will get $1500 of it in May and your regular $1500 next year.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-17_07:09:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "0ee992e52e1700283e85419ef7e767ba", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/17/2008 07:09 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hmmmm.. I wondered because they wouldn't let me clain earned income on my children except for the 200 dollars I made from my employer. So I didn't understand if I would actually get the new credit on unemployment and my retirement. I still dont understand why they wouldn't credit me but yet they could tax it. But, whatever. Government!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-17_11:36:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "c5f3ec77fb04d4b93cc7c12a560de6b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/17/2008 11:36 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Does the stimulus plan contain provisions to eliminate the 10% tax bracket, the lowest tax bracket, to zero percent for one year only?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-20_11:22:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "7479f7a6b2f3fded83236bd7354ba9b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/20/2008 11:22 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "still sounds like an advance on next years refund (if applicable) to me!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-20_16:23:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "3eb9b8370efead7697da0f405ab1d81d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/20/2008 04:23 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have looked everywhere and I can't find the answer.....Someone at work told me that we will have to pay a tax of 41% off of this tax rebate?  Is this true?  Do you pay tax on a tax refund??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-24_15:09:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "d5866e1d483020d0f2efbcb380b808df", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/24/2008 03:09 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "confused: generally, don't believe what you hear around the water cooler unless you work for a tax accountant. You won't owe any federal tax on the rebate/credit you receive.  There is more complete information on the <a href=\"http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2008/01/28/economic-stimulus-tax-rebate-calculator/\" rel=\"nofollow\">post containing the calculator</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-25_01:10:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/25/2008 01:10 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Our money is already spent on doctor's bills. This whole thing is just a diverson to get the angry voters off the backs of both houses of congress. This will stimulate the economy about as much as an aspirin will stimulate the libido!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-28_22:42:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "06df33390943feba1a5054a8200d6a6c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "Yesterday 10:42 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My mother only receives SS.  She has not had to file taxes for years.  We filled out the 1040A for her to get her $300 rebate.  However, she has not mailed it.  She's afraid she'll have to pay taxes on it next year.  We're wondering if it will considered income next year?  Will she have to file another 1040A next year too?  This is so confusing...help!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-29_15:37:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "cb01d4347d595e20edc124a5ca54fd0c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/29/2008 03:37 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sandy: Your mother will not owe federal taxes on the credit next year for receiving the credit this year, but she won't receive the credit next year unless the IRS determines that she's due a larger credit. In that case, they'll send the difference next year... but no additional federal taxes will be *owed* and the credit will not be considered \"income\" for federal tax purposes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-02-29_15:45:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/29/2008 03:45 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311734": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "if we qualified for the EIC- thus we paid nothing in taxes but got all of our taxes back (we're starving students with a house and two kids) do we still qualify to receive the money?  income is about 35k- so we are over the 3,ooo- but since we didn't pay anything i am wondering if we still get it... this is all just confusing to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-03_22:05:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "3c7c73c18227e0df06ce1b6eb5110482", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/03/2008 10:05 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This sucks. I just found out that by \"child\", they mean any dependant. This includes college students not able to recieve a refund from the Economic Stimulus Plan. <br><br>I live in my own apartment, pay my own rent and utlities... Yet I don't qualify as an independant because I am under the age of 25 and am in college.<br><br>Not only that, I will have to suffer the hike in taxes next year to pay for this crap.<br><br>Must be nice adults. I guess I am back to my $8 an hour job to take-from-the-poor and give-to-the-rich.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-05_11:04:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "a6d14de05d7b2c3cf4fae7ae14cfa7f3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/05/2008 11:04 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I haven't bothered to read everyone's response here; am I the only one convinced that it's a politically-motivated sop to the tax paying masses (remember 'bread &amp; circuses'?), funded by fiat currency that's completely worthless in intrinsic value? Nothing but vacuous staring into space out there...? What the hell do I mean? Anyone study macroeconomics in college? A politically motivated demand-pull \"solution\" using fiat currency is putting the bloody fire out with gasoline; SAVE YOUR REBATE! Invest it, don't just consumption-spend! If you just have to spend it, spend it on something that'll bear a true positive return way down your financial road (numismatics, anyone?). Cheers &amp; the best of luck (tho' I don't believe in that, even!)...! (^)(^)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-06_19:47:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "2d7ede57ed195de499b9b77d55870ded", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/06/2008 07:47 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If someone owes money to the state for welfare that his exwife received, will they still get the rebate or will the state take it.<br><br>Thank you", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-07_09:47:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "24888583ce7bef7a50a5579ec436b588", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/07/2008 09:47 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's a link to the IRS website that clears up how the stimulus package will affect your 2008 taxes:<br><a href=\"http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0%2C%2Cid=179181%2C00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=17918...</a><br>Go to the very bottom of the page, and see the 4th from the last question and answer:", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-07_20:07:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "717e2af835a4ce15e1800ef40dde5fbf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/07/2008 08:07 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311739": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "so let me see if this is right,<br><br>if i get back 1500.00 back from taxes in 2008 from 2007<br><br>next year in 2009 i will get back say 300.00?<br><br>if I get a check for 1200.00 this may<br>everbody is saying it is not free money that the goverment is giving us<br><br>thanks", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-07_21:16:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "c3f7274a5cab93677456c881c0d4cc1a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/07/2008 09:16 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311740": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I keep reading where the check (rebate) you receive will not affect next year's taxes.  Ex.  If I was to get $1500 back next year (as part of my 2008 tax filings), and I receive a $1200 rebate this year I will just get $200.  <br><br>Ok.  I see that.  But will the tax rebates be sort of built into the 2008 1040 Income Tax Table?  Ex. the 2007 tax table for Taxable Income of $89,000 Married Filing Jointly has tax owed of $15,104.  All things being equal in 2009 when filing 2008 taxes would that same $89,000 have taxes owed of $16,304?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-07_22:34:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "e3248af59aa81f5e7228bb33717a36c9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/07/2008 10:34 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Matt: The 2008 credit will not be built into the tax table.  It will be a separate credit, like it is this year (for 2007), except it will supposedly be on the 2008 1040 form.  If you receive the credit this year, you won't receive it next year (unless you're owed more due to a new child, for example, in which case you'll receive the difference).<br><br>In your example in your first paragraph, that's only true if the \"$1,500\" you get back next year takes the $1,200 credit into account.  If that's the case, then you won't receive the $1,200 you already received as an advance, you'd get a refund of $300 (not $200).  But this also means that <em>without</em> the stimulus credit, you would have only received a $300 refund anyway.  So your \"real\" tax stays the same in 2008.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-07_23:27:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "03/07/2008 11:27 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tracy: It's not free money because someone is paying for it, somewhere.  This \"rebate\" is an entirely new credit which will appear on the 2008 tax return. If you qualify now, you'll receive it this year *as an advance* and you won't receive it in 2009 when you do your 2008 taxes.  That's all there is to it, really.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-07_23:30:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "03/07/2008 11:30 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311743": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So if the 300-600 dollars given to me exceeds the amount of the rebate I would normally recieve from federal income tax from 2008 tax filing, does that give me the money here in 2008 instead of 2009 and wipe out my rebate for 2008 returns but allow me to keep that overage?  So I won't get anything in 2009 but I will not owe for the surplus either?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-09_12:54:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "cf9a7eaf291f86fb577cfbba308ecfc3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/09/2008 12:54 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311744": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've read it all and am lost.  Let's make this easy, I just did my 07 taxes and got back $1,000.  In May, I get this stimulus refund of $1,200.  Keeping everything the same, when I file in 09 for my 08 taxes, is my refund still $1,00 as it was in 07 or do I owe $200 because I got an advance this May?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-13_13:56:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "e51c9b52e7c11d675374c811ea090d8d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/13/2008 01:56 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311745": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm working now using my O.P.T., which is tied to my F1 visa. Am I eligible for the tax rebate?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-15_12:56:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "b0af9e9c1c0acf1dc93d4dc9d6bcafb1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/15/2008 12:56 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have read over the majority of the comments posted...however, nothing was stated in regards of a couple that isn't married (we are engaged) but have an infant?! Would BOTH of us get a refund, seeing as we BOTH filed seperate refunds!? How much money to you calculate? <br><br>Thanks for your help!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-15_22:33:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "51603b0e5cf90b6c5a228783b72786e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/15/2008 10:33 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311747": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "to by What The ??  comment #63...I think I finally understand...your next years refund will still be the $1000 because the new years tax forms will have a way to zero out this check in May", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-16_00:16:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "03e32f481c0e97fd8af3ffd3ff5437e2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/16/2008 12:16 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "my tax refund was off set by a old student loan. Will the irs keep the stimulus check for mr as well as my child", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-17_00:18:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4c901899fe533487384f1de33a85293", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/17/2008 12:18 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If a spouse passes away during 2007, would it be wiser to not except the rebate this year and apply it to next years return when the survivor will not have the advantage of filling a joint return?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-18_19:38:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "3dda70a9f65db5f07c1cc594ec94f9b9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/18/2008 07:38 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good info in this thread.  Here's my question:  Let's say I fill out my tax return and I owe $2,000, and I qualify for an economic stimulus rebate of $1,500. If I include a check for $500 with my tax return, will the IRS just keep my rebate amount of $1,500, and we're all even? <br>Thanks...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-19_00:13:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "7509983c8b9634a9ea72438257e28b75", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/19/2008 12:13 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Could you give more explaination on EITC?  I read on one  site that if your income was equal or greater than the stadard deduction for your catagory plus the number of dependents you claim then you are eligible for the $600 plus $300 per kid.  A buddy said that if I had no tax liability that I would only be able to get $300 plus $300 for my kid.<br><br>Which is correct?  Thanks!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-03-21_17:36:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "7056a589c6e32266a5d6851551ce5cd3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/21/2008 05:36 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311753": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nothing our government does is ever simple and straight forward. This complicated rebate system operates just like the credit card companies by linking it to future tax return in 2008. These morons make me sick. I suspect Bush's tax credits for the rich are not as complicated....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-10_11:02:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "f771cf9d4aa33bf0827182448606e316", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/10/2008 11:02 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's say i got direct deposit on my tax return, then closed the bank account. Where will my check go? Will my check be sent to the address on the W-2?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-14_14:47:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "a4c0165ba2ad8720a73ca0ce213e08db", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/14/2008 02:47 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Will the government take the economic stimulus from what isowed in back child support or student loans?  Also, are the economic stimulus being sent separtely to the husband and wife, or in one check providing we file jointly?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-15_16:02:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "940aaea430c85bfe28217140409976a8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/15/2008 04:02 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's my question on it:<br><br>I worked full-time in 2007 so I know I'll qualify for $900 (dependent). My question is in my 2008 return. I'm not working this year (I only did for the first part of January). I'm going to college full time. I'm also having a baby this year. If I was working full-time this year, I understand that I'd probably get another $300 for the child I'll be having this year, but how does this affect me since I'm not working this year?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-17_15:31:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "c682078eeea549c0ce284c4fb6aa9362", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/17/2008 03:31 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If I owe tax from previous years do they deduct the stimulus payment from what I owe or will they just omit the people who owe the government.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_19:01:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "eebb04b813f68fc69378b7c34c28a3ec", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "Yesterday 07:01 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fallingharcore: If the bank account that the IRS has on file for you is closed, then the direct deposit will fail, and the IRS will send a check to your address on your 1040 (not W-2).<br><br>Nancy: The government will use the payment to cover any back taxes owe, it depends with child support and student loans.  If you filed jointly, the payment in the form of one check or direct deposit will go to the primary (first) SSN on the 1040.<br><br>Kelly: If you don't qualify this year, next year's tax return (filed in 2009 for 2008 income) will have the credit as a line on the form.  You'll get another chance to qualify.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_20:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "Yesterday 08:34 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311759": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nancy, yes, the government WILL take what is owed in back child support if the AG's office filed for it just like they do with the regular refunds. And yes, the check will go to BOTH the husband and wife together if that is how you filed your 2007 taxes originally.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-28_23:10:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "2e748dd1dd4c9923f5fd6a8355a24a76", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "Yesterday 11:10 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know the IRS will apply your stimulus to your back taxes, but if you owe for 2007--is that consider back taxes? Soory if that is a dumb question, but I can't get a straight answer on this.  Even the person at IRS didn't know for sure.  I filed my 2007 taxes on 3/19 (electroncially) and owe $213.  I hadn't sent the payment yet.  I haven't even got a bill from IRS.  The lady I spoke at IRS this morning said the tax due bill will not go out until mid-May.  So, will they deduct the $213 from the $600? Or will I get the $600 direct deposited and have to pay the $213 via online or by mail? I'm supposed to be in the first group (17) but nothing has been deposited yet...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-29_10:11:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "8cc1d1fa6f47c8600ea5d7bb3d783bca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/29/2008 10:11 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're not making any sense in this paragraph: 'To summarize, the rebate that will be sent out in May 2008 is a credit to the taxes you\u2019ll owe on 2008 income, but it is a new credit, so you don\u2019t have to \u201cpay it back.\u201d' First of all, what is meant by a 'new credit'? Is there such thing as an old credit, and do you have to pay back old credits? Secondly, what about most of us who get tax rebates each year? You only address the situation where taxes are 'owed'. Completely not following you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-30_14:24:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "30ad173b43b03b28b72225584e644d9d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/30/2008 02:24 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "onthuhlist: You don't receive a rebate every year.  You may receive a *refund* every year.  Here's how to break it down:<br><br>Congress authorized a new credit which will appear on your 2008 income tax form (which you file in April 2009).  This is the new tax credit described.  (The EITC would be an example of an \"old\" credit and is unrelated to this topic.)<br><br>Congress has also authorized a special PRE-PAYMENT (a check to you from the government) outside of the tax return filing process with an estimation of what you'd probably receive for this new credit, but based on your 2007 income instead of 2008 income.  This is the payment you will receive in the next month or so if you qualify, regardless of whether you owed taxes when filing your 2007 return or qualified for a refund.<br><br>When you fill out next year's taxes, you will see a line for the credit.  But you already received the payment in advance.  So you will not claim the credit next year, nor will you \"owe it back\" to the government.  If you qualify for a *larger* credit at that time (because it'll be based on 2008 income rather than 2007 income), you will receive the difference.<br><br>If this isn't clear, seek a tax professional.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-30_15:26:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "04/30/2008 03:26 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've been searching high and low for an answer to this question, but can't find one.<br><br>if someone earned income (say, $15k) from self employment, and would have owed a couple grand in self-employment taxes, but those taxes were offset by the EIC, thereby causing the person to receive a tax refund (even though they never actually PAID any tax because it was offset by the EIC which actually resulted in the person receiving a refund) is that person still eligible for the stimulus payment?  they did in fact earn more than 3k in income, but didn't end up paying any taxes due to the EIC.  and if they WILL receive a stimulus payment, will they receive the additional amounts for their children as well?<br><br>thanks so much.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-04-30_19:58:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "d10e9bc130d17981bbc76d70dd72aeb0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/30/2008 07:58 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311765": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you receive the rebate check this year, what would happen if, theoretically, you had no income in 2008?  Why _wouldn't_ you have to pay it back at that point?  The credit doesn't have any actual tax liability to offset.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-01_16:08:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "711b9b137ef06b60e139de9f33190089", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "05/01/2008 04:08 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The way the law is designed, you get to keep the higher payment based on either 2007 or 2008 income.  If 2008's is higher, they'll include the difference by reducing your final tax bill or increasing your refund.  So you could receive the payment this year and keep it even if you don't qualify for the credit next year.  The supposed goal is to stimulate the economy ASAP.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-01_16:17:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "05/01/2008 04:17 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I owe $$709 for the year 2007. The IRS received my return on 02/06/08. They said it STILL IS NOT PROCESSED. They told me they process the returns that get refunds first. They CLAIM that this should not delay my stimulus check.(one agent)(the next one I talked to did not know and could not figure out why my return is taking so long to process!!)NO TWO ANSWERS ARE THE SAME! Should be in the first batch to be mailed last two digits (05)on May 9-16. But, I really don't belieive them!! One person there says one thing the next another.  They are people just normal people working a job and they just as confused as the rest of us!!  I am not counting on anything until I see it in my hands! And, they can wait for payment of $709 until they finally process my stimulus payment!! They would probably lose my payment if I sent that to them!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-02_10:13:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "5c044b5e8b386593914619d9460aaf0a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "05/02/2008 10:13 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311768": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "According to the person I talked to: They will deduct the $$ you owe from your stimulus. But, they process people's tax returns who get a refund first. They received my 2007 on 2/06 and still have not processed it because I owe $$709. SO, according to all the articles that I have read, your refund MUST be Processed by APRIL 15 to get your stimulus on time. Also, if you owe..... You will receive a check and not Direct deposit. One IRS agent told me it won't delay the stimulus payment if you owe, I don't really believe this! Check out my posting below!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-02_10:20:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "5c044b5e8b386593914619d9460aaf0a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "05/02/2008 10:20 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This forum should be titled: \"How to take a simple question and segue to quantum physics.\" Reading all of the comments above I get the idea that this is how issues get composted in congress. The bottom line is it is of no consequence to next years FEDERAL taxes. The new question is: \"How does the Economic Stimulus Rebate affect our STATE and LOCAL taxes?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-04_12:36:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "d3b8b853ce0d12122e1bd48ff75dac82", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "05/04/2008 12:36 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311770": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "if i had a baby in november will i get the stimulus check for him as well.  my wife and i qualify for the 1200.  so would i get 1500 based on my child?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-05_11:20:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "d9a8b7b33a70c1a2d58752df35f90c35", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "05/05/2008 11:20 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311771": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some states have decided not to tax this money", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-06_11:23:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "5c044b5e8b386593914619d9460aaf0a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "05/06/2008 11:23 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My ex husband and I live together on his taxes for 2007 he claimed me and our duaghter on his taxes. He recieved $500 for claiming me on his tax return. Will he receive $300-$600 dollars on his stimulus check for claiming me on his 2007 tax return?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_12:10:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "09a05f1d605a72a6bc99610ef12e43dd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "05/14/2008 12:10 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311773": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i made 23k last year, i was suppose to get 1200 dollars,600 for me and 600 for my wife who doesnt work, we always file joint,  i recieved barely more then 1k,  i must have been taxed on it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_13:24:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "8621c1d7328b259d464d6b729bf0a84a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "05/14/2008 01:24 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What bothers me about this whole \"rebate\" is that it is not a rebate at all.  For the people that barely qualify for this money, they didn't pay and don't pay income tax at all.  Therefore this is free money for those that are low income.  <br><br>Consider this your $1200 welfare check.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-05_17:08:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "6ce4c713d5d56b7a523de5e86c6f33e5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "06/05/2008 05:08 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We submitted our 1040 electronically. Near the end of this process, we were asked to \u201cverify the salary\u201d in a box provided. Regrettably, this resulted in a doubling of the reported salary, which in turn, made our adjusted gross income too high to be eligible for the stimulus payment (rebate). We detected this unfortunate error only after our 1040 had been accepted. We corrected the error by submitting an amended return (1040X), which made our adjusted gross income well within the range to receive the rebate. When can we expect our rebate and will it be directly deposited like our anticipated 2007 tax refund?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-05_19:48:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "a4762b1deff831ff6e9114f9ade91897", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "06/05/2008 07:48 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, I liked the stimilus package when I first heard of it, the President explained it as a SIMPLE way to receive money.  He said it is so SIMPLE--you get $600.00 EACH for a married couple that had a certain income, which equals $1200.00 total.  EASY RIGHT.  Well, I lost around $7000.00 by theft last year so I sent a copy of the police report with my return and deducted this loss.  WELL, you guessed it because I lost $7000.00 and received a refund on all money I paid in I only received $600.00 for me and my spouse.  SO, I lost twice financially.  I just hope there is not a way for me to lose anymore money.  The \"stimilus\" package as presented  was really going to help, but did not help me and appears to only be for  the people who make more money.  PLEASE explain WHY Congress took a good idea and made it so complicated, because it did not help me--due to my theft loss.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-05_20:38:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "8a3c2bfdae2c5efff200314f88e38c8a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "06/05/2008 08:38 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311777": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My daughter recieved her stimulus check and realize her tax form indicated 0 dependent children,  which of course reflected an decrease in her stimulas amount that she recieved.  She has 2 children.  How can she correct this to obtain additional money?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-06_14:56:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "940aaea430c85bfe28217140409976a8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "06/06/2008 02:56 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311778": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My friend is worried that she might not get the stimulus payment because her only source of income was from child support last year and from a winning lottery ticket.  She lives with her boyfriend, but he did not claim her as a dependent.  She filed taxes from the child support and the lottery ticket for a total of 12,900.  She has two children, so shouldn't she get $1200?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-06-10_20:03:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "d9b91738e708cbabcec57839aefdbbd1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "06/10/2008 08:03 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If a person who is a dependent on someone elses tax form (and that person received a rebate), filed separately, and received the rebate on their own, what would happen?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-04_20:48:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "8607e6b7646becb5d806c6cb9a9a2f10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "08/04/2008 08:48 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "2008 income planning for stimulus checks for <a href=\"http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2008/02/08/how-will-the-economic-stimulus-tax-rebate-affect-2008-tax-returns/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2008/02/08...</a><br><br>Apparently a key tax planning issue for some is to make sure they have at least $3000 in qualified income in 2008 (if they did not in 2007).<br><br>My situation may be true of many. Retired (hence no earned income). Had been debating whether to start social security payments or wait to full retirement age (have other funds to live on). In 2007 I received no social security and it is too late to change this. If I start social security now I can receive over $3000 in 2008. Since I have dependent children (young wife) it appears we could receive $1200 for children and $600 for us. If correct, this becomes a big incentive to start social security now (which means a lower annual payments in future years). <br><br>Is my understanding correct?<br><br>I can imagine similar situations for others who did not receive full benefits based on 2007 income, such as someone who can take a short term job for extra income, (or someone with a small business whose earning are near $3000 per year) who may want to manage things to have over $3000 in qualified income in 2008 (delaying expenses, taking income a bit earlier, etc.).<br><br>Since your can social security checks before full retirement age (65 to 66) and then repay the money and start at full retirement age, it appears many who have stopped working after 62 should be sure to get social security checks in 2008, even if they will later repay them so their future checks will be larger.<br><br>If I understand correctly, how come these strategies are not being more widely discussed?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-13_13:24:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b6036178d3aed98034295566ab96a1a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11/13/2008 01:24 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "From what I have read on these blogs , my take on the economic stimulus check we received earlier this year is NOT supposed to make any difference in what our refund will be when we file our 2008 taxes. However according to H &amp; R Block tax calculator we have to state the amount we got.  It does reduce our refund by the exact amount we received. I did two scenarios with their calculator. On both I put head of household, 1 dependent, and that I made 35,000.  I also entered in the same amount for the federal taxes withheld. The first time I entered that I recieved 900 for the stimulus the next time I entered 0 ( that I did not recieve a check ) The expected refund was exactly a  $900.00 difference. How is that not taking that money back??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-01_22:20:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "3f3e2f0233c33b49d4bd39864bc80360", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/01/2009 10:20 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311782": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ladydevious: It's pretty straightforward: there's a new credit on the 2008 tax return forms. Either you received an advance for the credit in 2008, like most people did (the economic stimulus payment) or you're getting the credit on your tax return form. The net effect is the same.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-01_22:23:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "01/01/2009 10:23 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311781, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Going back to the scenario provided by layddevious, I did the exact same thing.  I agree that we are paying this back.  This was nothing more than a loan or an advance that is now being paid back with the 2008 tax return.  Right?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_13:52:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "95db4fe2afb8dfa20a1767bad6df4222", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/06/2009 01:52 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311784": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "bet_d: It's not being \"paid back.\" It's a new credit on the 2008 income tax form. You received yours early (in 2008). You received your credit early, like most people in this country. Since they gave you your credit already, you don't get it now (again).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-06_14:03:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "01/06/2009 02:03 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311783, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I too am running into a problem with H&amp;R tax cut software where my rebate amount is deducting money from my federal return. I was under the understanding that the tax rebate last year would not count towards our return this year because of the \"new credit\" it was suppose to be applied as (think: child credit for example).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-08_12:06:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "6f270d86168b0264e28102dec113968f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/08/2009 12:06 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damien: It's not a problem. What you're seeing is the fact that you already received your stimulus credit. The people who haven't received it yet will have it added to their tax refund (or subtracted from their amount due).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-08_12:18:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "01/08/2009 12:18 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311785, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well bummer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-08_13:34:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "6f270d86168b0264e28102dec113968f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/08/2009 01:34 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311788": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Your friend is worthless and should get a job and stop being a drain on the rest of society.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-08_18:48:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "0456c368bf99514eb3c81162438f240b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/08/2009 06:48 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "if i recieved only half of what i was supposed to get in the stimulus  rebate, would i be getting the other half? or would it just balance out even.. basically what im saying is i only got half and since , i only got half do i have to pay it back since im eligible for the other half...<br><br>which would make my income tax return just like normal...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-13_01:02:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "09e929be5088a75fd170f56519ef2bb6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/13/2009 01:02 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311790": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well what a rebate! The goverment failed to tell the taxpayers that the credit they recieved in 2008 will be taken away from any tax refund in 2008 taxes. For example i started my taxes today and there was a question that asked how much i recieved in the rebate program. I recieved $300. When finished with taxes I felt the return was low and went back and checked that I did not recieve a rebate and calculated again and the refund was $300 larger, so uncle sam is taking back his \"rebate\". I don't understand, every article I have come across has said you don't have to pay it back, but in the end you DO!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-16_22:12:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "2e095589b0c2ec62163a654443bb2198", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/16/2009 10:12 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Matt: The government is not taking back the rebate, it's just not giving you two. The stimulus payment and the \"recovery rebate credit\" are the same. You already received your check in 2008, so you're not receiving the credit (again) in 2009. Just because you felt your return was low doesn't mean that you're receiving less that you are supposed to. Of course your *refund* would be higher if you calculated again saying you didn't receive the credit last year. But you did receive it last year, so you can't get it again this year.<br><br>Yes, the government did a poor job of enacting this credit in a way most people would understand. But it is a simple concept. You can't receive the credit twice.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-17_09:41:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "01/17/2009 09:41 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311790, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The way they are telling things on this site is wrong!!!  I have done my taxes already and how they explained it to me is totally differnet than what they are printing.  You are paying these rebates back, they  are also makingn you claim more on you return than what you actuallyn got.  My rebate i recieved was 600 dollars, my husbnd received 300 dollars, they sent our return back stating that it was wrong, we had to claim what we COULD HAVE RECEIVED like for 3 dependants is900 dollars and my husband could have recieved 600 dollars based on our income so thats what they are making us claim takin off 1500 dollars for these tax rebates.  If it was going to be used against us in the end why did they send these rebates to us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-22_19:04:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "436f340cd431ba77e5eac167c573cda0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/22/2009 07:04 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Leah: Sounds like you need a better tax accountant. Whoever \"they\" are who told you this are completely wrong. The information is plain and simple on the form instructions published by the IRS. <a href=\"http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=186065,00.html?portlet=7\" rel=\"nofollow\">This site</a> is helpful as well. Good luck!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-22_19:13:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "01/22/2009 07:13 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311792, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am sorry I should have said we recieved $1200 last year and now we should recieve $1500, right?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-27_09:48:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "19e31bb847efd0dda95f6e00e7eca70b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/27/2009 09:48 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What I don't understand, is why the state thinks they can get paid from our rebate check. Just did my taxes with Liberty Tax Service, and they said there is a handful of states, Oregon included, that are deducting the amount we received for our rebate check ($1200 for us) from our tax return this year. We can usually receive around $1400 back from state, but this year we are barely getting back $200 because of the rebate check. WTF?! Can someone please explain how it is right that we are being taxed on  a tax credit? I was told by the tax service that because of this, some people will actually owe money to the state.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-27_21:49:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae919bcaa1f39b61d934775100c81305", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "01/27/2009 09:49 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311796": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "If you are paying in for taxes you don't have to pay back the stimulus you received. (you don't owe more $ than your taxes)<br><br>But if you are getting a refund you will get less than expected because you have already gotten it months ago.<br><br>Seems a little unfair to me", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-28_04:36:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "a0e057055dce21148e03d214745976f5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "Yesterday 04:36 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Erick: That's not an accurate statement. In terms of the economic stimulus/recovery rebate credit, there is no difference between those who owe taxes after filing their return than those who will receive a refund, other than the obvious. The only difference is between people who received their full economic stimulus payment in 2008 and those who did not.<br><br>Andrea: You're probably right. I know I tried to get out the word that the economic stimulus payment was just an *advance* on a new tax credit, but the government didn't do a good job of communicating and explaining to the public. In all, over the course of the last year and tax returns filed this year, the payment was above and beyond normal taxes, but it doesn't appear that way to many people.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-28_09:42:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "Yesterday 09:42 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311796, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311798": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Please clarify for me. <br>The company I worked for closed and so  I had to do just any work I could find.<br>However I still didn't  net enough money in 2007 to qualify for a stimulus check.<br>If I do find that I net enough wjen I file my 2008 return, will I receive the stimulus check offered for the 2007 return?<br>If so, will it be as a refund on my 2008 return?<br>Or will I not receive anything at all?. <br>I am confused.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-28_15:16:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "eeebf664600dcb66fd3496cbda1d75c4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "Yesterday 03:16 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oracle: If you now qualify for the stimulus (called the \"recovery rebate credit\" on the 2008 returns), you will receive the stimulus as a form of an addition to your tax refund (or a decrease to the tax you owe).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-28_15:20:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "Yesterday 03:20 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311798, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If I didn't do research on this, I would still be clueless to how the stimulus check worked.  The way the govt explained the stimulus package to me is totally different than what I am finding now, now that I am preparing my taxes.  This should have been explained clearly to citizens as to that it was an advance on our tax refunds for 08.  I never heard that spring of 08.  If I would have known that, I would have done something different with the money.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-02_11:35:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "206fd89c53afdfe70234b7295fc26198", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/02/2009 11:35 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wrong michele,<br>It turns out that the \"rebate\" was merely an interest free loan. A $600 rebate results in having to pay an additional $600 in taxes this year unless you earn more than $75K.<br><br><strong>Ed. note: This comment is incorrect.</strong>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-02_13:27:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "92e11e4f5af172d78b479e127de3fb35", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/02/2009 01:27 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311802": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, you're going to have to pay the $1200 back!<br><br><strong>Ed. note: This comment is incorrect.</strong>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-02_13:28:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "92e11e4f5af172d78b479e127de3fb35", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/02/2009 01:28 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311803": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ricer46: I suggest you read the post at the top of this page and my above comments (in green). <strong>People who received a stimulus check last year DO NOT have to pay \"more\" taxes.</strong> It is the people who did NOT receive a stimulus check who are eligible to receive that stimulus as a part of their refund (or to reduce the amount of tax they owe).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-02_13:44:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/02/2009 01:44 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311801, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311804": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am confused. Last year my wife and I received a refund of around $900 from my 2007 return. Our income has not changed this year (everything is exactly the same) but after filling out our 2008 return and putting in the amount of the Economic Stimulus check Turbo Tax says that I owe $55. Before I put in the amount of the Stimulus check my refund was $854. Tell me how this is possible if the Stimulus check is not being deducted from my refund.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-02_14:06:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "23030d0b7d090667b95c80976f732560", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/02/2009 02:06 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311805": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Confused: There are a number of ways that is possible.  There are more variables that come into play than your income.  Take your taxes to a professional if you have questions about your particular tax return.  Most importantly, are you sure that was your *refund* not the stimulus check that was $900 last year?  Basically, what you're saying that that your refund *and* your stimulus check were both $900 last year.  If not, you are either comparing apples with oranges or you entered the wrong amount as your *stimulus amount* in this year's tax return.  <br><br>Entering $900 as your stimulus payment in the form will result in your supposed refund dropping $900.  Until you enter $900 on that line in Turbo Tax, the software assumes you didn't receive a stimulus payment, which according to your note, you did. Ignore Turbo Tax's calculations until you are done entering everything on your tax form.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-02_14:18:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/02/2009 02:18 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311804, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My 2007 refund was $900. My wife and I received a $1500  Economic Stimulus check ($600 for myself, $600 for my wife, and $300 for our son) later that spring so $900 was not the stimulus check. I am not complaining because I will not have to pay back the extra $600. I am just stating that the money received from the stimulus check reduced my 2008 refund. I have been using turbo tax for about five years now because our tax return is fairly simple so I don't think it is anything new with my return. The CPA that did our taxes the five years before that did not find any other deductions the first year that I conpaired the two and cost around double what turbo tax costs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-02_14:36:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "23030d0b7d090667b95c80976f732560", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/02/2009 02:36 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Confused: Perhaps a better way to look at it is that the economic stimulus increased the money you've received (back) from the government overall.  If the economic stimulus (and recovery rebate credit) didn't exist, you'd have the same tax bill this year, owing $55, but you wouldn't have received the $1,500 last year. Overall, you're not paying anything back, even if year to year, your numbers make it look that way.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-02_14:44:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/02/2009 02:44 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311806, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My tax preparer didn't figure my refund as being reduced because of the stimulus. The information wasn't entered anywhere on the return, and was only used to calculate whether or not I was due a Rebate Recovery Credit. Which I was not. <br><br>Methinks you are entering the amount of your stimulus on the line that ask for how much the Recovery Rebate credit is, and reducing it as a payment already made to you. <br><br>And we all know how much trouble our new Treasury Secretary almost got into for using Turbo Tax. <br>I'd rather spend the extra money and make sure it's right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-08_12:43:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "d6d95c29b590cb50fe437d53ca340b9f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/08/2009 12:43 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I asked a question and it never showed up on here... weird. well Id like to know when people are being reimbursed if they got less than they should have in the stimulus check,<br>For example I got 698 but the calculator says I should have received 900. 600 for me and 300 for my daughter. I did not receive the 202 dollar difference with my regular tax refund. When would I receive it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-14_13:08:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "6190e2f31b8962935fc318d9ecac9998", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/14/2009 01:08 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I see that there is a ton of confusion regarding taxes this year. To help simplify this problem I have included some thoughts for you to consider. <br><br>- Tax software included the stimulus rebate as INCOME which it should not be doing, this should have been fixed in many of these applications. If you are noticing that the tax rebate is lowering your tax return, then you should look for an updated application or file your taxes using the IRS tax form. <br><br>- As stated above, do not include the stimulus rebate from last year as INCOME! If you follow the 1040 closely, you will notice that if you do NOT include the stimulus from last year as income that there is no place for the stimulus to lower your return. On the line pertaining to the Recovery Rebate Credit, follow the RRC worksheet in order to determine the amount to list. The chances are that if you received the rebate last year that you will enter a 0 on this line. <br><br>- It pays to consult with a professional tax advisor/preparer because of situations like this. The IRS has rejected over 15% of returns because of these errors. <br><br>- The stimulus was an advance of the RRC that is offerred on this year's tax form. It does not need to be paid back and is not a government scheme to rob the American people. Before jumping to conclusions get the correct information.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-24_09:24:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdc0e18fa30a4aef681c0644f7e06e98", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/24/2009 09:24 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's what I thought too initially, but it's not so. It's just an illusion. There are some who did not file for their rebate last year. If you did not, then you get it this year, if you did, then you don't. Turbotax begins by assuming that you did not receive the rebate, and adds $600 to your refund. Then when you tell it that you did get the rebate. it removes it. Unfortunately Intuit does not explain this well at all, but a bit of research will turn up the proper explanation, and yours is not it,", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-24_12:14:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "92e11e4f5af172d78b479e127de3fb35", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/24/2009 12:14 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311812": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, I finally figured it out. Thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-24_12:16:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "92e11e4f5af172d78b479e127de3fb35", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/24/2009 12:16 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am sorry that you feel my information is not helpful. I am trying to provide relief to those that believe they are being ripped off. I have completed a number of tax returns this year and none of them have had the problems that people on here are having. I have provided this same information to contacts that completed their taxes by themselves and they found that the online program at the time was wrong (before the updates on certain ones). If you want to get your REAL refund back, then heed the knowledge presented and double check your return instead of relying solely on a third party program (These programs are usually very reliable but the stimulus rebate created confusion in the programming).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-25_07:48:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdc0e18fa30a4aef681c0644f7e06e98", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "02/25/2009 07:48 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tax Apprentice 09: The information you've provided is helpful. Thank you for sharing. People continue to have questions due to the way online tax preparation software tallies the refund/bill.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-02-25_09:09:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "flexocc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "02/25/2009 09:09 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311813, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": true, "is_realtime": false}, "21311815": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hello. I am very confused about one thing. I did not receive the stimulus payment last year(2008), so I did receive it this year. Is what I received the \"rebate recovery credit\"? I've also had a few people tell me that I will also receive later in the year 2009's stimulus payment. Is this correct? Please someone help me! Thanks! <a href=\"mailto:ktnicole05@gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">ktnicole05@gmail.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-03_09:48:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "9dbdf8a4767644aa5899d65dcccdf596", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/03/2009 09:48 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Help has arrived \u2013 I will have no financial worries from now on!  As the woman on YouTube predicted, I don\u2019t have to worry any more about paying for my groceries, my gas, or my mortgage!<br><br>As part of the 95% of Americans who will see their taxes reduced and thanks to the largesse of ReidBamaLosi, I am ecstatic to report that I now have $22 more each month than I have had before.  What should I do first?  Pay down my mortgage?  Take that dream trip to New Zealand?  Fund my grandkids\u2019 college?  What else can I do with this windfall of 73 cents per day?  Should I start socking it away right now to start funding the future tax increases that are inevitable?  That would be the patriotic thing to do, right? <br><br>For these golden opportunities, I say thank you, Jesus! No, wait, can\u2019t say that, no reference to religion or God, bad, bad to do that.  So whom do I thank?  Oh yeah, forgot, thank you to my Big Brother, my Government, who now has an endless supply of funds to support me and all of my fellow citizens, and not-so citizens, for the rest of our lives.  An endless supply of money just like the loaves and fishes \u2013 no, wait, there I go again with another reference to something, shudder, religious.  Thank you, China!  Your altruistic generosity is inspiring knowing that you expect nothing in return.  Thank you to my dear grandchildren who now have the privilege of paying for this \u2013 in more ways than one - for the rest of their lives.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-13_23:43:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a7b08786072db09322fb83e09f15638", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/13/2009 11:43 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311817": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ok they say that we do not \"pay back\" our stimulus payment, but that  is a down right lie... let me explain.. if the stimulus check was an advanced credit towards what i owe on my taxes in 2009 then its exactly that..u would think. for example i payed roughly $4,600 in taxes in 2008, after filing my taxes they figured how much i owed leaving me with a return of $3,700 ok taxes payed right and if the stimulus was simply a credit towards what i owe for 2008 then it should have been used towards that $900 that i owed to taxes.. well the last thing they do at the tax center is ask how much i got from the stimulus check, after entering that number..which was $600.. boom my tax return drops from $3700 to $3100 so if that is not paying back the stimulus payment please tell me what the heck it is. i called the irs and even they could not explain it, the \"professional\" on the phone said its like gettin 100 points at the start of a school class and at the end if u dont get any points taken away, then you end with zero... what is that crap someone shed some light on the situation please!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-18_20:45:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "153ecf8dedf6af3543248186daf72379", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/18/2009 08:45 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with dunobk1.  Our return dropped the EXACT amount we were \"given\" in that piece of crap stimulus check.  I hate the government, I really do.....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-24_21:20:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "6861f313f000ef719b4cde4fb42f1fe6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/24/2009 09:20 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We got trapped by the last \"tax reduction\" in takehome pay in W's administration, because even though the withholding was reduced, our tax liability was NOT.  I see this happening again.  We got socked with a huge tax bill for 2008 even though we are both deducting only 1 person, have the normal homeowner  and charity deductions.  Is this going to get even worse with this new so called tax reduction?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-27_09:00:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "657507b29acd9a3839f8df51fb3052c0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/27/2009 09:00 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What number did you call to actually talk to someone?  I ended up in auto-attendant hell for 20 minutes and still didn't get to talk to anyone.<br><br>thanks,<br>Peg", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-03-27_09:02:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "657507b29acd9a3839f8df51fb3052c0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "03/27/2009 09:02 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311817, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311821": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi, this is my first year filing taxes and I am new to the stimulus, I did not recieve that much back, but I was wondering will I be affected by the stimulus? Also I am no longer working. Please reply. Because I thought it was supposed to help us \"Poor\" people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-10_00:28:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "6fc40b8ddc6f548dbb8518d0ea50e393", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/10/2009 12:28 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311822": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "can someone explain this to me? i have a friend who said he filed his taxes and received over $7000 back because of some stimulus plan which was recently signed by the president . he's claiming that i could recieve the same return (even if i've already filed my taxes with h&amp;r block and i am only receiving just over $700 in return) he says he has recieved $8100 but this seems to be so far fetched and maybe even illegal to me. have anyone heard of this?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-19_23:19:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "7b66d14ea5ffd8d065a416fa6efddb01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/19/2009 11:19 PM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 21311681, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "21311823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did your friend purchase a new home? There is a new home buyers credit for $8000 for both 2008 and 2009 now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-20_07:16:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "6f270d86168b0264e28102dec113968f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "04/20/2009 07:16 AM", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "42485932", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "214864", "hash": 1157575141031596867}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 140, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 42485932, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "a754e38c7443c66a17fb4f842187453e", "use_yahoo": true, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": true, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '4f0bfca82e06c976a1efdd7c783a5fd0';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=consumerismcommentary' +
		'&t=how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + disqus_default_text +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://consumerismcommentary.disqus.com/how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + '</a>'
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<form action="." method="GET" onsubmit="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false); return false;"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Subscribe to all comments by email</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Do not subscribe to comments</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
				</form> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';
			
			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>' 
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> Just a moment...';
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/consumerismcommentary/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/consumerismcommentary/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://consumerismcommentary.disqus.com/how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/uploads/forums/21/4864//avatar92.jpg';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/consumerismcommentary/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">140</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://consumerismcommentary.disqus.com/how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://consumerismcommentary.disqus.com/how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://consumerismcommentary.disqus.com/how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Consumerism Commentary" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:42485932" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/openid-login-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false">OpenID</a> \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'consumerismcommentary',
			't'				: 'how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/consumerismcommentary/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/consumerismcommentary/how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/consumerismcommentary/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/consumerismcommentary/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/consumerismcommentary/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'how_the_economic_stimulus_tax_rebate_will_affect_2008_tax_returns_updated_january_26_2009'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/consumerismcommentary/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/42485932/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311681" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311681" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311681" href="http://lifelibertyandthepursuitofmoney.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RacerX</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311681" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311681" class="dsq-comment-message">Great point! Have to remember it is really our money that they are send back to us!<br><br>This isn\'t income for 2008/09</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311822" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311822" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311822">ice</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311822" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311822" class="dsq-comment-message">can someone explain this to me? i have a friend who said he filed his taxes and received over $7000 back because of some stimulus plan which was recently signed by the president . he\'s claiming that i could recieve the same return (even if i\'ve already filed my taxes with h&amp;r block and i am only receiving just over $700 in return) he says he has recieved $8100 but this seems to be so far fetched and maybe even illegal to me. have anyone heard of this?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311682" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311682" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311682">Chooki</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311682" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311682" class="dsq-comment-message">What I have not been able to determine is, what is the elegibility for the 2008 tax credit? Is it the same as for the rebate? As someone who (luckily as some might see it) is inelegible for the rebate due to income, will the tax credit help me, or will that go in the toilet as well?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311683" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311683" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311683">Peter</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311683" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311683" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi,<br>  I think that saying "the rebate that will be sent out in May 2008 is a credit to the taxes youâ€™ll owe on 2008 income." leaves people with the idea that this is just an advance refund and will mean less of a refund that they would have gotten otherwise in 2009.  This is free money that you wouldn\'t have gotten otherwise.  A better way to say it is that it is a new tax credit which you are getting now and will be reflected on your 2008 return (i.e., it will show as a credit on your 2008 return, but then will be balanced by the payment that the Government has already made, for a net of $0)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311684" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311684" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311684" href="http://www.yourcpapartners.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chad Bordeaux</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311684" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311684" class="dsq-comment-message">Am I reading this correctly?  If they give a taxpayer a rebate and then they determine that they gave him too much, they are letting him keep the difference?  That is awful nice of them.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311685">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311685" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311685" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311685" href="http://www.funny-about-money.coom/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Funny about Money</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311685" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311685" class="dsq-comment-message">So...am I totally dense here, or does this mean you probably should put that money aside to pay taxes in 2009? At that point the amount you owe goes back to normal or maybe even rises to take account of the amount the government has dispensed from funds it needed to operate. <br><br>Not that I didn\'t intend to put whatever rebate I get (and I\'ll believe it when I see it) into savings anyhow...but it would be good to know if we get to keep it or if we have to hand it back over a year from now.<br><br>Personally, I think I\'d rather just pay my taxes, keep the government functioning on track, and not get jacked around.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311686">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311686" href="http://www.yourcpapartners.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chad Bordeaux</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311686" class="dsq-comment-message">If you income/tax brackets stay relatively the same from 2007 to 2008, you will not need to set the money aside (although it is a good idea to invest it rather than spend it.)  <br><br>The will be tax credits on your 2008 return that should offset the rebate you receive in May.  The net effect on your 2008 return "should be" zero.  <br><br>In other words, if they were not issuing a rebate in May.  The credit would lower your 2008 tax liability on your 2008 return - either producing a lower amount due to the IRS or a higher refund.  The rebate is just an advance payment of that credit.<br><br>I agree, keep things simple.  If they want to give a credit they should just wait until you file your return to give it to you.  I wonder what the administrative cost is to run this "rebate" program at the IRS instead of just letting it happen naturally on tax returns.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311687">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311687" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311687">Daniel</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311687" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311687" class="dsq-comment-message">My understanding is that it is an advance on your 2008 taxes. Your refund for next year could be less and your payment could be more, depending on what your 2007 taxes were.<br><br>I would rather have a permanent tax reduction then this temporary relief. It does nothing but fuel a person\'s material dependency and greed that will leave a hole in your soul in the coming months. <br><br>Does anyone know what the best investment would be with the tax relief?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311688" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311688" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311688" href="http://www.mydollarplan.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">My Dollar Plan</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311688" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311688" class="dsq-comment-message">Interesting. So one more reason to get our AGI lower on our 2007 taxes. Although, since they passed this after year end it\'s a little late for most strategies to do this.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311689">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311689" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311689" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311689">pete</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311689" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311689" class="dsq-comment-message">So- The government is going to give me $1800 (Married filing jointly, 2 kids)- as an "advance rebate" to my 2008 tax bill. <br><br>This year I only owe about $1600 in taxes.<br><br>What happens next year  if I also only owe $1600? they gave me an $1800 advance- Will I need to pay back $200?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311690" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311690" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311690">shun</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311690" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311690" class="dsq-comment-message">if i made 2,436 will ibe able 2 gt the rebate check</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311691" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311691" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311691">Angela</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311691" class="dsq-comment-message">WOW..<br><br>Is it going to come in the mail or do I need to request it. This is kind of hard to believe that the IRS is just going to give us ALL checks. Like the other girl said, I will believe it when I see it. <br><br>Seriously, does anyone know how you get it. Do I have to go to a professional to get the money back?<br><br>HELP</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311692">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311692" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311692" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311692" href="http://www.yourcpapartners.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chad Bordeaux</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311692" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311692" class="dsq-comment-message">I will just come in the mail.  As long as you have filed your 2007 return, you do not need to do anything.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311693" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311693" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311693" href="http://www.yourcpapartners.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chad Bordeaux</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311693" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311693" class="dsq-comment-message">That should read "It will just come in the mail."  I personally will not be coming in the mail.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311694" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311694">BK</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311694" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311694" class="dsq-comment-message">I would get a $1500 tax rebate.  THe way I read it is that next year even if I owe taxes I don\'t pay it.  What is to stop me from maxing out my allowances on my w-4 if I don\'t have to pay it back?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311695" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311695" href="http://www.thomaslshaffer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">thomas</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311695" class="dsq-comment-message">more bad than good in my opinion. Besides,  I owe way more than what i\'d get so i\'ll  stick to filing on the 15th.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311696">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311696" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311696" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311696">Curious</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311696" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311696" class="dsq-comment-message">What happens if you don\'t originally qualify based on your 2007 return (due to a high AGI) but would qualify due to a drop in AGI on the 2008 return?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311697">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311697" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311697" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311697">Bryan</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311697" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311697" class="dsq-comment-message">No, the rebate only applies to persons that made $3,000 or over in the year of 2007.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311698" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311698" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311698" href="http://blog.aspire2wealth.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Adfecto</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311698" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311698" class="dsq-comment-message">I think to simplify things everyone who had $3,000 of income from a job or social security needs to be sure to file 2007 taxes.  Next, the IRS will mail you a check for the amount of stimulus money (I don\'t say rebate because that seems to add to the confusion) that you qualify for based on your 2007 tax filing.  Do your 2008 taxes as normal next year. If based on your 2008 tax status you now qualify for a larger stimulus check it can be claimed as a refundable credit.<br><br>As an example, in 2007 I was a full time student who was claimed as a dependent on my parents taxes (which disqualifies me from receiving the credit based on 2007 tax filings).  If during 2008 my status changes so I am no longer a dependent, then when I file my 2008 taxes (in March 2009) I can claim a credit equal to the stimulus money ($600 or $300 depending on income).<br><br>Here is another example.  I file my 2007 taxes jointly with my wife and had less than $150,000 in income but more than $3,000.  Based on our 2007 tax filings we will receive a check for $1,200 from the IRS as our stimulus money.  During the year 2008 our gross income is again within the limits and my wife gives birth to a baby (so we now have one dependent). We can now claim a $300 tax credit on our 2008 taxes because we now have a dependent.<br><br>As a final example, consider that in 2007 you file as a single filer and had income of $60,000.  You qualify for $600 in stimulus money that will arrive from the IRS as a check in summer 2008.  During 2008 you change jobs and get a large raise so you make $100,000 in 2008 and again file as a single person.  You now technically exceed the income limit for the stimulus money, but because the government was nice you do not have to pay any of the $600 back.  You simply file as normal and ignore that you even got that stimulus money.  <br><br>On the flip side of this situation, if you had only $1,000 of income in 2007 but had $3,001 in 2008 you could claim a $300 credit on your 2008 taxes.  In other words, if you qualify in either year you get the money (all that changes is if you get it this summer or when you file your 2008 taxes) and if you qualified in one year but not the other the IRS does not require you to pay any of it back and nothing bad happens tax wise.<br><br>I hope this explanation helps those who are confused.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311699" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311699" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311699">ScottyUSN</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311699" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311699" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve heard numberous different scenarios.<br><br>1. This stimulus is not a "rebate" by definition. It is an advance. I\'ve heard it will be considered income and taxable at the appropriate taxable percentage (Say %15).<br><br>2. It is an advance that will require 100% payback in 2008 taxes.<br><br>3. It is a "rebate" you are not expect to pay back.<br><br>I personally qualify for $2100.00 "rebate" and have no desire to receive this money if it\'s nothing more than a one year interest free loan I will be expected to return in April of 09!<br><br>Looking forward to hearing specifics. I find it tough to believe it a "Rebate" by definition.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311700" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311700" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311700" class="dsq-comment-message">Scotty: Neither of your scenarios are correct, but number 3 is the closest.  It is an advance, but it will not be considered income.  It is simply an advance of a new credit that will be included on tax forms for 2008.  You don\'t have to pay it back.  In fact, if you qualify for a higher credit when doing your 2008 taxes next year (thanks to a new child, for example), the IRS will send you the difference.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311701" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311701" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311701">Jewels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311701" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311701" class="dsq-comment-message">Most people are not getting the idea of this whole tax rebate. The money you will get is to help our economy. Basically they are giving you a "surprise" check thinking that you will just go and spend the money. Most people now-a-days are saving there money because of the rising costs. So with the "surprise" check they are pretty much HOPING you will spend the money on shopping and stuff. If you don\'t except the rebate this year then they will just give it to you next year. You don\'t have to pay anything back to the IRS...AT ALL EVER!! They just want money back in the economy. In my opinion it\'s a stupid idea!! I LOVE MONEY but this was not a smart move from Bush.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311702" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311702" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311702">hermit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311702" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311702" class="dsq-comment-message">If anyone is like me I\'ll be saving it all, i plan to put it in my <a href="http://ingdirect.com" rel="nofollow">ingdirect.com</a> savings account it gets about 4.1% hell of alot more then basic bank savings account.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311703" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311703" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311703">GHR5</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311703" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311703" class="dsq-comment-message">I know that this check is an advance on a credit will appear in the 2008 tax forms/year (i.e. forms that will report income earned in 2008 and that will be filed during the 2009 tax filing season).<br><br>That said, this \'rebate\'/stimulus check shouldn\'t reduce any potential refund I\'d get next year, correct?  If anything, it would increase same via a change in status (i.e a child born in 2008).<br><br>For example, this year let\'s say I\'m expecting a $2,700 refund.  If nothing changed, this was 2009 and I\'d ordinarily get another $2,700 refund for my 1040 (i.e. for income earned in 2008), would this then be reduced to $1,200 because of this year\'s $1,500 check?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311704" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311704" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311704" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311704" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311704" class="dsq-comment-message">GHR5: Your second paragraph is correct.  The credit advance you receive this year will not reduce your normal refund next year.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311705" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311705" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311705">GHR5</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311705" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311705" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you, Flexo.  I\'m new to your blog as of this morning.  Great spot.  I\'ll be back often!  Have a good day.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311706" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311706" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311706">dave</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311706" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311706" class="dsq-comment-message">i dont think it will reduce your refund when you file your 2008 taxes in early 2009.  its my understanding that if you lived in a cave and didnt file 2007 taxes, you would have a line item on your 2008 taxes to get this rebate.  but the government wants us to have the money now, so they are giving it to us NOW (an advance).  but if you take it now, then you cant take it AGAIN on the 2008 taxes.  At that point, you go on calculating your normal 2008 refund and it would not be effected by the advance.  Basically...the government wants to give us a gift on next year\'s taxes, but they just want to do it NOW instead of THEN...everything else will be the same.  Is this correct?  This is my understanding but i am not 100% sure of this.  any help?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311707" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311707" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311707" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311707" class="dsq-comment-message">Dave: You\'re right -- the only thing you missed is that if a re-calculation of the credit when you file your 2008 taxes shows that you should have received *more* (due to an additional child in 2008, for example), then you will receive the difference as a credit on your return.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311708" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311708" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311708">Chris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311708" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311708" class="dsq-comment-message">I love how people think this is free money and will not have to be paid back.  I understand that this rebate will not have any effects on 2008 tax refund or liability, but there are other costs.  Has anyone considered the inflation that the creation of this money will cause? Well guess what, thats what it is going to cost.  Plus the govenrment isn\'t going to operate in 2008 with less money, so while we get it from one side they will find a way to recoup it from another.  Remember, there is no such thing as a free lunch!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311709" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311709" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311709">Andy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311709" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311709" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s say you are a family of three and you get the same refund every year, $1000.  So in 2007 you get $1000, in 2008, you get $1000 and in 2009 you get $1000.  This is how the law changes it.<br><br>In 2009 your refund you would be $2500 thanks to the new law.  Your original $1000 plus the new $1200 for you and your spouse and the $300 for your child.<br><br>Instead of the government making you wait till you file your 2009 return, they are advancing you the $1500 of that 2009 refund in May of 2008.<br><br>So when you file your 2009 taxes you will still get your original $1000 back.<br><br>Now if you have a child this year, you will add another dependant to your 2009 taxes.  This will get you another $300 in your refund in 2009.  Since you already received a check for all of your dependants on the forms you filled out in 2008.<br><br>So in 2008 you have 3 dependants = $1500<br>In 2009 you have 4 dependants = $1800<br>You already received $1500, so you get to claim the difference $300.  Your $1000 refund will now jump to $1300.<br><br>To make it simple for math, let\'s say one of your dependants dies and you can\'t claim them in 2009 return.  You don\'t have to give back the advance you received in May. The government lets you keep the extra money.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311710" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311710">Andy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311710" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311710" class="dsq-comment-message">By the way, I know in 2009 you file your 2008 return, but many people just don\'t understand that and go by the year they file.  So I tried to simplfy it for that reason.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311711">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311711" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311711" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311711">dumb checker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311711" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311711" class="dsq-comment-message">You have to learn to spell in order to get the refund. This means that Bush will not recieve one either.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311712" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311712" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311712" href="http://www.debtdefy.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brian</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311712" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311712" class="dsq-comment-message">Apparently neither will you "dumb checker"...  it\'s recEIve.  :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311713" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311713" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311713">Bob</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311713" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311713" class="dsq-comment-message">What kind of credit is this new 2008 credit?  Example:<br>Suppose Tax Table says the Tax is $900.<br>With 2 children the "Child Tax Credit" offset is $2000, which brings the Tax Due to $0.  The "Additional Child Tax Credit" amount is $1,200 but is applied after the "Tax Due" is figured along with $95 already withheld for a total refund of $1295.  The "Child Tax Credit" is figured under "Taxes and Credits" while the "Additional Child Tax Credit" is figured under "Payments".  <br>1. Is the new Credit going to be figured off of the "Tax" amount before other credits to determine eligibility.<br>2. Is the new Credit going to be applied before or after the "Total Tax" (example. 2007 1040 line 63) total is figured.<br>Knowing "where" this knew "Credit" will be applied on the 2008 Tax forms will help us know what to expect.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311714" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311714" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311714">Moe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311714" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311714" class="dsq-comment-message">In signing the stimulus package, did this eliminate the current child tax credit of $1000 for tax year 2008?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311715" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311715" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311715">kimm</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311715" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311715" class="dsq-comment-message">I was wondering if your 2007 tax refund was offset for child support will the rebate be offset as well?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311716" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311716" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311716" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311716" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311716" class="dsq-comment-message">Moe: There\'s no legislation that I know of to eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit.<br><br>kimm: If you receive child support, it will not be considered when determining your earned income for the purpose of the calculator.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311717" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311717" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311717">labellemoma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311717" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311717" class="dsq-comment-message">if you make at least 3000 in income, including social security benefits , you will be eligible for 300 per individual, 600 for mfj staus. If you had any tax liability up to 600 for individual, 1200 for mfj, you will get that amount. also for any child who qualifies for the child tax credit and is your dependant you recieve 300 per child. Now, next year when you file your taxes there is going to be a new credit applied to tax liability that you wont actually get. But you will not have to pay any of the stimulas refund back. maybe this will help clear things up.qualifying social security does not enclude ssi.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311718">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311718" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311718" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311718" href="http://www.mpringle.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mark Pringle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311718" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311718" class="dsq-comment-message">So, it this tax credit a way to stave off a recession until the Democrats get into office?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311719" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311719">Betsy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311719" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311719" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, so just to make sure that i\'m understanding this correctly. <br><br>We are a family of 3, married filing jointly, with 1 child. WE recieved a refund of around $1500 this year, for the 2007 tax refund. <br><br>So, in May we will get $1500 (according to what are income is in 2007 adn having a child)<br><br>So when we file our taxes in early 2009 for the 2008 tax season, then there will be a line for the tax stimulus package. IF we get a check in May (or there abouts) then in 2009 when we file our 2008 returns, we will still get our regular $1500 (or so give or take) refund in 2009??? (unless of course we add a new tax credit by having a child or buying a home in 2008, in which case we get more in our returns) . So, they are basically spliting up our tax returns for the 2008 tax year, and sending us the extra now, and then our regular refund in early 2009? Am i understanding this correctly. So, we will get a refund in 2009, and the "rebate" we get in May will not be subtracted from our normal refund we would be intitled to in 2009, due to over withholding from our paychecks? Correct??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311720" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311720" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311720">Bob</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311720" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311720" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok. <br>Just found new info on IRS website with examples.  Finally.<br>The eligibility is figured on Tax liability BEFORE the Child Tax Credit is applied.<br><br>Still don\'t know if the New Rebate Credit shows up as a positive number, on the final 2008 returns, figured under the Payments section or if it is figured under Credits and Taxes, like the Child Tax Credit, to achieve a not less than 0 Tax Amount.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311721" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311721" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311721">RMom</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311721" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311721" class="dsq-comment-message">Quick question, please:<br><br>My husband receives Social Security disability benefits (NOT SSI).  Because these are not taxable they are not reported on our tax returns so will this income be included in the calculation for the rebate?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311722" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311722" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311722">Bobbie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311722" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311722" class="dsq-comment-message">Question,... If my only income in 2007 was from Unemployment (Taxable and definately was taxed) and also from closing out my retirement and the seriously taxed me on that too. I also had a small paycheck from my employer. Only like 200 dollars but all added were more than 3,000 dollars.<br>My question is, would I qualify for the rebate or the new credit in 2009 ( for 2008 tax year) ??</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311723" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311723" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311723" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311723" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311723" class="dsq-comment-message">For everyone curious about whether they\'ll receive the rebate and how much, please <a href="http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2008/01/28/economic-stimulus-tax-rebate-calculator/" rel="nofollow">use this calculator</a>, paying close attention to the detailed instructions.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311724" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311724" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311724">Andy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311724" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311724" class="dsq-comment-message">Betsy, the answer is yes.<br><br>Instead of getting $3000 next year, you will get $1500 of it in May and your regular $1500 next year.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311725" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311725">Bobbie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311725" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311725" class="dsq-comment-message">hmmmm.. I wondered because they wouldn\'t let me clain earned income on my children except for the 200 dollars I made from my employer. So I didn\'t understand if I would actually get the new credit on unemployment and my retirement. I still dont understand why they wouldn\'t credit me but yet they could tax it. But, whatever. Government!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311726" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311726" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311726">Matt</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311726" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311726" class="dsq-comment-message">Does the stimulus plan contain provisions to eliminate the 10% tax bracket, the lowest tax bracket, to zero percent for one year only?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311727">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311727" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311727" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311727">1953greg</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311727" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311727" class="dsq-comment-message">still sounds like an advance on next years refund (if applicable) to me!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311729" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311729" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311729">confused???</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311729" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311729" class="dsq-comment-message">I have looked everywhere and I can\'t find the answer.....Someone at work told me that we will have to pay a tax of 41% off of this tax rebate?  Is this true?  Do you pay tax on a tax refund??</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311730">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311730" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311730" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311730" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311730" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311730" class="dsq-comment-message">confused: generally, don\'t believe what you hear around the water cooler unless you work for a tax accountant. You won\'t owe any federal tax on the rebate/credit you receive.  There is more complete information on the <a href="http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2008/01/28/economic-stimulus-tax-rebate-calculator/" rel="nofollow">post containing the calculator</a>.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311731" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311731" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311731">Layered</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311731" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311731" class="dsq-comment-message">Our money is already spent on doctor\'s bills. This whole thing is just a diverson to get the angry voters off the backs of both houses of congress. This will stimulate the economy about as much as an aspirin will stimulate the libido!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311732" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311732" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311732">Sandy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311732" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311732" class="dsq-comment-message">My mother only receives SS.  She has not had to file taxes for years.  We filled out the 1040A for her to get her $300 rebate.  However, she has not mailed it.  She\'s afraid she\'ll have to pay taxes on it next year.  We\'re wondering if it will considered income next year?  Will she have to file another 1040A next year too?  This is so confusing...help!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311733">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311733" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311733" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311733" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311733" class="dsq-comment-message">Sandy: Your mother will not owe federal taxes on the credit next year for receiving the credit this year, but she won\'t receive the credit next year unless the IRS determines that she\'s due a larger credit. In that case, they\'ll send the difference next year... but no additional federal taxes will be *owed* and the credit will not be considered "income" for federal tax purposes.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311734" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311734" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311734">lyz</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311734" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311734" class="dsq-comment-message">if we qualified for the EIC- thus we paid nothing in taxes but got all of our taxes back (we\'re starving students with a house and two kids) do we still qualify to receive the money?  income is about 35k- so we are over the 3,ooo- but since we didn\'t pay anything i am wondering if we still get it... this is all just confusing to me.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311735" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311735" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311735">Cody</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311735" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311735" class="dsq-comment-message">This sucks. I just found out that by "child", they mean any dependant. This includes college students not able to recieve a refund from the Economic Stimulus Plan. <br><br>I live in my own apartment, pay my own rent and utlities... Yet I don\'t qualify as an independant because I am under the age of 25 and am in college.<br><br>Not only that, I will have to suffer the hike in taxes next year to pay for this crap.<br><br>Must be nice adults. I guess I am back to my $8 an hour job to take-from-the-poor and give-to-the-rich.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311736" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311736" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311736" href="http://jazzwalk.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">danielg</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311736" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311736" class="dsq-comment-message">I haven\'t bothered to read everyone\'s response here; am I the only one convinced that it\'s a politically-motivated sop to the tax paying masses (remember \'bread &amp; circuses\'?), funded by fiat currency that\'s completely worthless in intrinsic value? Nothing but vacuous staring into space out there...? What the hell do I mean? Anyone study macroeconomics in college? A politically motivated demand-pull "solution" using fiat currency is putting the bloody fire out with gasoline; SAVE YOUR REBATE! Invest it, don\'t just consumption-spend! If you just have to spend it, spend it on something that\'ll bear a true positive return way down your financial road (numismatics, anyone?). Cheers &amp; the best of luck (tho\' I don\'t believe in that, even!)...! (^)(^)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311737">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311737" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311737" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311737">Brenda Coleman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311737" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311737" class="dsq-comment-message">If someone owes money to the state for welfare that his exwife received, will they still get the rebate or will the state take it.<br><br>Thank you</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311738" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311738" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311738">Ben</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311738" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311738" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s a link to the IRS website that clears up how the stimulus package will affect your 2008 taxes:<br><a href="http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0%2C%2Cid=179181%2C00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=17918...</a><br>Go to the very bottom of the page, and see the 4th from the last question and answer:</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311739" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311739" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311739">Tracy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311739" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311739" class="dsq-comment-message">so let me see if this is right,<br><br>if i get back 1500.00 back from taxes in 2008 from 2007<br><br>next year in 2009 i will get back say 300.00?<br><br>if I get a check for 1200.00 this may<br>everbody is saying it is not free money that the goverment is giving us<br><br>thanks</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311740" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311740" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311740">Matt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311740" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311740" class="dsq-comment-message">I keep reading where the check (rebate) you receive will not affect next year\'s taxes.  Ex.  If I was to get $1500 back next year (as part of my 2008 tax filings), and I receive a $1200 rebate this year I will just get $200.  <br><br>Ok.  I see that.  But will the tax rebates be sort of built into the 2008 1040 Income Tax Table?  Ex. the 2007 tax table for Taxable Income of $89,000 Married Filing Jointly has tax owed of $15,104.  All things being equal in 2009 when filing 2008 taxes would that same $89,000 have taxes owed of $16,304?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311741">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311741" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311741" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311741" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311741" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311741" class="dsq-comment-message">Matt: The 2008 credit will not be built into the tax table.  It will be a separate credit, like it is this year (for 2007), except it will supposedly be on the 2008 1040 form.  If you receive the credit this year, you won\'t receive it next year (unless you\'re owed more due to a new child, for example, in which case you\'ll receive the difference).<br><br>In your example in your first paragraph, that\'s only true if the "$1,500" you get back next year takes the $1,200 credit into account.  If that\'s the case, then you won\'t receive the $1,200 you already received as an advance, you\'d get a refund of $300 (not $200).  But this also means that <em>without</em> the stimulus credit, you would have only received a $300 refund anyway.  So your "real" tax stays the same in 2008.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311742">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311742" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311742" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311742" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311742" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311742" class="dsq-comment-message">Tracy: It\'s not free money because someone is paying for it, somewhere.  This "rebate" is an entirely new credit which will appear on the 2008 tax return. If you qualify now, you\'ll receive it this year *as an advance* and you won\'t receive it in 2009 when you do your 2008 taxes.  That\'s all there is to it, really.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311743" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311743" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311743">Dustyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311743" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311743" class="dsq-comment-message">So if the 300-600 dollars given to me exceeds the amount of the rebate I would normally recieve from federal income tax from 2008 tax filing, does that give me the money here in 2008 instead of 2009 and wipe out my rebate for 2008 returns but allow me to keep that overage?  So I won\'t get anything in 2009 but I will not owe for the surplus either?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311744" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311744" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311744">What The??</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311744" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311744" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve read it all and am lost.  Let\'s make this easy, I just did my 07 taxes and got back $1,000.  In May, I get this stimulus refund of $1,200.  Keeping everything the same, when I file in 09 for my 08 taxes, is my refund still $1,00 as it was in 07 or do I owe $200 because I got an advance this May?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311745" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311745" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311745">OPT F1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311745" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311745" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m working now using my O.P.T., which is tied to my F1 visa. Am I eligible for the tax rebate?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311746" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311746" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311746">msMommy</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311746" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311746" class="dsq-comment-message">I have read over the majority of the comments posted...however, nothing was stated in regards of a couple that isn\'t married (we are engaged) but have an infant?! Would BOTH of us get a refund, seeing as we BOTH filed seperate refunds!? How much money to you calculate? <br><br>Thanks for your help!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311747" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311747" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311747">KB</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311747" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311747" class="dsq-comment-message">to by What The ??  comment #63...I think I finally understand...your next years refund will still be the $1000 because the new years tax forms will have a way to zero out this check in May</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311748">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311748" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311748" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311748">lommie50</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311748" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311748" class="dsq-comment-message">my tax refund was off set by a old student loan. Will the irs keep the stimulus check for mr as well as my child</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311749" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311749" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311749">Kidd</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311749" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311749" class="dsq-comment-message">If a spouse passes away during 2007, would it be wiser to not except the rebate this year and apply it to next years return when the survivor will not have the advantage of filling a joint return?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311751">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311751" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311751" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311751">Denver</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311751" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311751" class="dsq-comment-message">Good info in this thread.  Here\'s my question:  Let\'s say I fill out my tax return and I owe $2,000, and I qualify for an economic stimulus rebate of $1,500. If I include a check for $500 with my tax return, will the IRS just keep my rebate amount of $1,500, and we\'re all even? <br>Thanks...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311752" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311752" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311752">Baffled</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311752" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311752" class="dsq-comment-message">Could you give more explaination on EITC?  I read on one  site that if your income was equal or greater than the stadard deduction for your catagory plus the number of dependents you claim then you are eligible for the $600 plus $300 per kid.  A buddy said that if I had no tax liability that I would only be able to get $300 plus $300 for my kid.<br><br>Which is correct?  Thanks!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311753">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311753" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311753" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311753">BobH</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311753" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311753" class="dsq-comment-message">Nothing our government does is ever simple and straight forward. This complicated rebate system operates just like the credit card companies by linking it to future tax return in 2008. These morons make me sick. I suspect Bush\'s tax credits for the rich are not as complicated....</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311754">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311754" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311754">Fallinghardcore</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311754" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311754" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s say i got direct deposit on my tax return, then closed the bank account. Where will my check go? Will my check be sent to the address on the W-2?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311755" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311755" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311755">Nancy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311755" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311755" class="dsq-comment-message">Will the government take the economic stimulus from what isowed in back child support or student loans?  Also, are the economic stimulus being sent separtely to the husband and wife, or in one check providing we file jointly?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311756">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311756" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311756" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311756">Kelly</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311756" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311756" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s my question on it:<br><br>I worked full-time in 2007 so I know I\'ll qualify for $900 (dependent). My question is in my 2008 return. I\'m not working this year (I only did for the first part of January). I\'m going to college full time. I\'m also having a baby this year. If I was working full-time this year, I understand that I\'d probably get another $300 for the child I\'ll be having this year, but how does this affect me since I\'m not working this year?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311757">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311757" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311757" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311757">willie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311757" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311757" class="dsq-comment-message">If I owe tax from previous years do they deduct the stimulus payment from what I owe or will they just omit the people who owe the government.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311758">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311758" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311758" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311758" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311758" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311758" class="dsq-comment-message">Fallingharcore: If the bank account that the IRS has on file for you is closed, then the direct deposit will fail, and the IRS will send a check to your address on your 1040 (not W-2).<br><br>Nancy: The government will use the payment to cover any back taxes owe, it depends with child support and student loans.  If you filed jointly, the payment in the form of one check or direct deposit will go to the primary (first) SSN on the 1040.<br><br>Kelly: If you don\'t qualify this year, next year\'s tax return (filed in 2009 for 2008 income) will have the credit as a line on the form.  You\'ll get another chance to qualify.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311759" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311759" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311759">Amy</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311759" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311759" class="dsq-comment-message">Nancy, yes, the government WILL take what is owed in back child support if the AG\'s office filed for it just like they do with the regular refunds. And yes, the check will go to BOTH the husband and wife together if that is how you filed your 2007 taxes originally.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311760">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311760" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311760">james</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311760" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311760" class="dsq-comment-message">I know the IRS will apply your stimulus to your back taxes, but if you owe for 2007--is that consider back taxes? Soory if that is a dumb question, but I can\'t get a straight answer on this.  Even the person at IRS didn\'t know for sure.  I filed my 2007 taxes on 3/19 (electroncially) and owe $213.  I hadn\'t sent the payment yet.  I haven\'t even got a bill from IRS.  The lady I spoke at IRS this morning said the tax due bill will not go out until mid-May.  So, will they deduct the $213 from the $600? Or will I get the $600 direct deposited and have to pay the $213 via online or by mail? I\'m supposed to be in the first group (17) but nothing has been deposited yet...</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311761">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311761" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311761" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311761" href="http://onthuhlist.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">onthuhlist</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311761" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311761" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re not making any sense in this paragraph: \'To summarize, the rebate that will be sent out in May 2008 is a credit to the taxes you’ll owe on 2008 income, but it is a new credit, so you don’t have to “pay it back.”\' First of all, what is meant by a \'new credit\'? Is there such thing as an old credit, and do you have to pay back old credits? Secondly, what about most of us who get tax rebates each year? You only address the situation where taxes are \'owed\'. Completely not following you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311762" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311762" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311762" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311762" class="dsq-comment-message">onthuhlist: You don\'t receive a rebate every year.  You may receive a *refund* every year.  Here\'s how to break it down:<br><br>Congress authorized a new credit which will appear on your 2008 income tax form (which you file in April 2009).  This is the new tax credit described.  (The EITC would be an example of an "old" credit and is unrelated to this topic.)<br><br>Congress has also authorized a special PRE-PAYMENT (a check to you from the government) outside of the tax return filing process with an estimation of what you\'d probably receive for this new credit, but based on your 2007 income instead of 2008 income.  This is the payment you will receive in the next month or so if you qualify, regardless of whether you owed taxes when filing your 2007 return or qualified for a refund.<br><br>When you fill out next year\'s taxes, you will see a line for the credit.  But you already received the payment in advance.  So you will not claim the credit next year, nor will you "owe it back" to the government.  If you qualify for a *larger* credit at that time (because it\'ll be based on 2008 income rather than 2007 income), you will receive the difference.<br><br>If this isn\'t clear, seek a tax professional.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311763" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311763" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311763">anjeee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311763" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve been searching high and low for an answer to this question, but can\'t find one.<br><br>if someone earned income (say, $15k) from self employment, and would have owed a couple grand in self-employment taxes, but those taxes were offset by the EIC, thereby causing the person to receive a tax refund (even though they never actually PAID any tax because it was offset by the EIC which actually resulted in the person receiving a refund) is that person still eligible for the stimulus payment?  they did in fact earn more than 3k in income, but didn\'t end up paying any taxes due to the EIC.  and if they WILL receive a stimulus payment, will they receive the additional amounts for their children as well?<br><br>thanks so much.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311765" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311765" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311765">Tom K</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311765" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311765" class="dsq-comment-message">If you receive the rebate check this year, what would happen if, theoretically, you had no income in 2008?  Why _wouldn\'t_ you have to pay it back at that point?  The credit doesn\'t have any actual tax liability to offset.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311766">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311766" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311766" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311766" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311766" class="dsq-comment-message">The way the law is designed, you get to keep the higher payment based on either 2007 or 2008 income.  If 2008\'s is higher, they\'ll include the difference by reducing your final tax bill or increasing your refund.  So you could receive the payment this year and keep it even if you don\'t qualify for the credit next year.  The supposed goal is to stimulate the economy ASAP.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311767" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311767">Sammy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311767" class="dsq-comment-message">I owe $$709 for the year 2007. The IRS received my return on 02/06/08. They said it STILL IS NOT PROCESSED. They told me they process the returns that get refunds first. They CLAIM that this should not delay my stimulus check.(one agent)(the next one I talked to did not know and could not figure out why my return is taking so long to process!!)NO TWO ANSWERS ARE THE SAME! Should be in the first batch to be mailed last two digits (05)on May 9-16. But, I really don\'t belieive them!! One person there says one thing the next another.  They are people just normal people working a job and they just as confused as the rest of us!!  I am not counting on anything until I see it in my hands! And, they can wait for payment of $709 until they finally process my stimulus payment!! They would probably lose my payment if I sent that to them!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311768" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311768" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311768">Sammy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311768" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311768" class="dsq-comment-message">According to the person I talked to: They will deduct the $$ you owe from your stimulus. But, they process people\'s tax returns who get a refund first. They received my 2007 on 2/06 and still have not processed it because I owe $$709. SO, according to all the articles that I have read, your refund MUST be Processed by APRIL 15 to get your stimulus on time. Also, if you owe..... You will receive a check and not Direct deposit. One IRS agent told me it won\'t delay the stimulus payment if you owe, I don\'t really believe this! Check out my posting below!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311769" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311769" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311769">Quasibozo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311769" class="dsq-comment-message">This forum should be titled: "How to take a simple question and segue to quantum physics." Reading all of the comments above I get the idea that this is how issues get composted in congress. The bottom line is it is of no consequence to next years FEDERAL taxes. The new question is: "How does the Economic Stimulus Rebate affect our STATE and LOCAL taxes?"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311770" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311770" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311770">kyo34</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311770" class="dsq-comment-message">if i had a baby in november will i get the stimulus check for him as well.  my wife and i qualify for the 1200.  so would i get 1500 based on my child?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311771" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311771" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311771">Sammy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311771" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311771" class="dsq-comment-message">Some states have decided not to tax this money</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311772">Nicole</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311772" class="dsq-comment-message">My ex husband and I live together on his taxes for 2007 he claimed me and our duaghter on his taxes. He recieved $500 for claiming me on his tax return. Will he receive $300-$600 dollars on his stimulus check for claiming me on his 2007 tax return?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311773">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311773" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311773" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311773">michael</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311773" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311773" class="dsq-comment-message">i made 23k last year, i was suppose to get 1200 dollars,600 for me and 600 for my wife who doesnt work, we always file joint,  i recieved barely more then 1k,  i must have been taxed on it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311774" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311774">Sean</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311774" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311774" class="dsq-comment-message">What bothers me about this whole "rebate" is that it is not a rebate at all.  For the people that barely qualify for this money, they didn\'t pay and don\'t pay income tax at all.  Therefore this is free money for those that are low income.  <br><br>Consider this your $1200 welfare check.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311775" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311775">Dianne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311775" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311775" class="dsq-comment-message">We submitted our 1040 electronically. Near the end of this process, we were asked to “verify the salary” in a box provided. Regrettably, this resulted in a doubling of the reported salary, which in turn, made our adjusted gross income too high to be eligible for the stimulus payment (rebate). We detected this unfortunate error only after our 1040 had been accepted. We corrected the error by submitting an amended return (1040X), which made our adjusted gross income well within the range to receive the rebate. When can we expect our rebate and will it be directly deposited like our anticipated 2007 tax refund?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311776" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311776" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311776">Big John</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311776" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311776" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, I liked the stimilus package when I first heard of it, the President explained it as a SIMPLE way to receive money.  He said it is so SIMPLE--you get $600.00 EACH for a married couple that had a certain income, which equals $1200.00 total.  EASY RIGHT.  Well, I lost around $7000.00 by theft last year so I sent a copy of the police report with my return and deducted this loss.  WELL, you guessed it because I lost $7000.00 and received a refund on all money I paid in I only received $600.00 for me and my spouse.  SO, I lost twice financially.  I just hope there is not a way for me to lose anymore money.  The "stimilus" package as presented  was really going to help, but did not help me and appears to only be for  the people who make more money.  PLEASE explain WHY Congress took a good idea and made it so complicated, because it did not help me--due to my theft loss.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311777" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311777" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311777">Nancy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311777" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311777" class="dsq-comment-message">My daughter recieved her stimulus check and realize her tax form indicated 0 dependent children,  which of course reflected an decrease in her stimulas amount that she recieved.  She has 2 children.  How can she correct this to obtain additional money?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311778" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311778" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311778">Jules</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311778" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311778" class="dsq-comment-message">My friend is worried that she might not get the stimulus payment because her only source of income was from child support last year and from a winning lottery ticket.  She lives with her boyfriend, but he did not claim her as a dependent.  She filed taxes from the child support and the lottery ticket for a total of 12,900.  She has two children, so shouldn\'t she get $1200?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311779" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311779" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311779">kim</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311779" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311779" class="dsq-comment-message">If a person who is a dependent on someone elses tax form (and that person received a rebate), filed separately, and received the rebate on their own, what would happen?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311780" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311780" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311780">ED</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311780" class="dsq-comment-message">2008 income planning for stimulus checks for <a href="http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2008/02/08/how-will-the-economic-stimulus-tax-rebate-affect-2008-tax-returns/" rel="nofollow">http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2008/02/08...</a><br><br>Apparently a key tax planning issue for some is to make sure they have at least $3000 in qualified income in 2008 (if they did not in 2007).<br><br>My situation may be true of many. Retired (hence no earned income). Had been debating whether to start social security payments or wait to full retirement age (have other funds to live on). In 2007 I received no social security and it is too late to change this. If I start social security now I can receive over $3000 in 2008. Since I have dependent children (young wife) it appears we could receive $1200 for children and $600 for us. If correct, this becomes a big incentive to start social security now (which means a lower annual payments in future years). <br><br>Is my understanding correct?<br><br>I can imagine similar situations for others who did not receive full benefits based on 2007 income, such as someone who can take a short term job for extra income, (or someone with a small business whose earning are near $3000 per year) who may want to manage things to have over $3000 in qualified income in 2008 (delaying expenses, taking income a bit earlier, etc.).<br><br>Since your can social security checks before full retirement age (65 to 66) and then repay the money and start at full retirement age, it appears many who have stopped working after 62 should be sure to get social security checks in 2008, even if they will later repay them so their future checks will be larger.<br><br>If I understand correctly, how come these strategies are not being more widely discussed?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311781" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311781" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311781">layddevious</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311781" class="dsq-comment-message">From what I have read on these blogs , my take on the economic stimulus check we received earlier this year is NOT supposed to make any difference in what our refund will be when we file our 2008 taxes. However according to H &amp; R Block tax calculator we have to state the amount we got.  It does reduce our refund by the exact amount we received. I did two scenarios with their calculator. On both I put head of household, 1 dependent, and that I made 35,000.  I also entered in the same amount for the federal taxes withheld. The first time I entered that I recieved 900 for the stimulus the next time I entered 0 ( that I did not recieve a check ) The expected refund was exactly a  $900.00 difference. How is that not taking that money back??</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311782">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311782" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311782" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311782" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311782" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311782" class="dsq-comment-message">Ladydevious: It\'s pretty straightforward: there\'s a new credit on the 2008 tax return forms. Either you received an advance for the credit in 2008, like most people did (the economic stimulus payment) or you\'re getting the credit on your tax return form. The net effect is the same.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311783" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311783" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311783">bet_d</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311783" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311783" class="dsq-comment-message">Going back to the scenario provided by layddevious, I did the exact same thing.  I agree that we are paying this back.  This was nothing more than a loan or an advance that is now being paid back with the 2008 tax return.  Right?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311784" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311784" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311784" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311784" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311784" class="dsq-comment-message">bet_d: It\'s not being "paid back." It\'s a new credit on the 2008 income tax form. You received yours early (in 2008). You received your credit early, like most people in this country. Since they gave you your credit already, you don\'t get it now (again).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311785" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311785" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311785">Damien</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311785" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311785" class="dsq-comment-message">I too am running into a problem with H&amp;R tax cut software where my rebate amount is deducting money from my federal return. I was under the understanding that the tax rebate last year would not count towards our return this year because of the "new credit" it was suppose to be applied as (think: child credit for example).</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311786">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311786" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311786" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311786" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311786" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311786" class="dsq-comment-message">Damien: It\'s not a problem. What you\'re seeing is the fact that you already received your stimulus credit. The people who haven\'t received it yet will have it added to their tax refund (or subtracted from their amount due).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311787" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311787" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311787">Damien</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311787" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311787" class="dsq-comment-message">Well bummer.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311788" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311788" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311788">topeka</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311788" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311788" class="dsq-comment-message">Your friend is worthless and should get a job and stop being a drain on the rest of society.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311789" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311789">magic</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311789" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311789" class="dsq-comment-message">if i recieved only half of what i was supposed to get in the stimulus  rebate, would i be getting the other half? or would it just balance out even.. basically what im saying is i only got half and since , i only got half do i have to pay it back since im eligible for the other half...<br><br>which would make my income tax return just like normal...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311790" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311790" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311790">matt</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311790" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311790" class="dsq-comment-message">Well what a rebate! The goverment failed to tell the taxpayers that the credit they recieved in 2008 will be taken away from any tax refund in 2008 taxes. For example i started my taxes today and there was a question that asked how much i recieved in the rebate program. I recieved $300. When finished with taxes I felt the return was low and went back and checked that I did not recieve a rebate and calculated again and the refund was $300 larger, so uncle sam is taking back his "rebate". I don\'t understand, every article I have come across has said you don\'t have to pay it back, but in the end you DO!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311791" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311791" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311791" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311791" class="dsq-comment-message">Matt: The government is not taking back the rebate, it\'s just not giving you two. The stimulus payment and the "recovery rebate credit" are the same. You already received your check in 2008, so you\'re not receiving the credit (again) in 2009. Just because you felt your return was low doesn\'t mean that you\'re receiving less that you are supposed to. Of course your *refund* would be higher if you calculated again saying you didn\'t receive the credit last year. But you did receive it last year, so you can\'t get it again this year.<br><br>Yes, the government did a poor job of enacting this credit in a way most people would understand. But it is a simple concept. You can\'t receive the credit twice.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311792">leah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311792" class="dsq-comment-message">The way they are telling things on this site is wrong!!!  I have done my taxes already and how they explained it to me is totally differnet than what they are printing.  You are paying these rebates back, they  are also makingn you claim more on you return than what you actuallyn got.  My rebate i recieved was 600 dollars, my husbnd received 300 dollars, they sent our return back stating that it was wrong, we had to claim what we COULD HAVE RECEIVED like for 3 dependants is900 dollars and my husband could have recieved 600 dollars based on our income so thats what they are making us claim takin off 1500 dollars for these tax rebates.  If it was going to be used against us in the end why did they send these rebates to us.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311793" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311793" class="dsq-comment-message">Leah: Sounds like you need a better tax accountant. Whoever "they" are who told you this are completely wrong. The information is plain and simple on the form instructions published by the IRS. <a href="http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=186065,00.html?portlet=7" rel="nofollow">This site</a> is helpful as well. Good luck!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311794">Ellen</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311794" class="dsq-comment-message">I am sorry I should have said we recieved $1200 last year and now we should recieve $1500, right?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311795">Becky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311795" class="dsq-comment-message">What I don\'t understand, is why the state thinks they can get paid from our rebate check. Just did my taxes with Liberty Tax Service, and they said there is a handful of states, Oregon included, that are deducting the amount we received for our rebate check ($1200 for us) from our tax return this year. We can usually receive around $1400 back from state, but this year we are barely getting back $200 because of the rebate check. WTF?! Can someone please explain how it is right that we are being taxed on  a tax credit? I was told by the tax service that because of this, some people will actually owe money to the state.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311796">erick</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311796" class="dsq-comment-message">If you are paying in for taxes you don\'t have to pay back the stimulus you received. (you don\'t owe more $ than your taxes)<br><br>But if you are getting a refund you will get less than expected because you have already gotten it months ago.<br><br>Seems a little unfair to me</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311797" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311797" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311797" class="dsq-comment-message">Erick: That\'s not an accurate statement. In terms of the economic stimulus/recovery rebate credit, there is no difference between those who owe taxes after filing their return than those who will receive a refund, other than the obvious. The only difference is between people who received their full economic stimulus payment in 2008 and those who did not.<br><br>Andrea: You\'re probably right. I know I tried to get out the word that the economic stimulus payment was just an *advance* on a new tax credit, but the government didn\'t do a good job of communicating and explaining to the public. In all, over the course of the last year and tax returns filed this year, the payment was above and beyond normal taxes, but it doesn\'t appear that way to many people.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311798">Oracle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311798" class="dsq-comment-message">Please clarify for me. <br>The company I worked for closed and so  I had to do just any work I could find.<br>However I still didn\'t  net enough money in 2007 to qualify for a stimulus check.<br>If I do find that I net enough wjen I file my 2008 return, will I receive the stimulus check offered for the 2007 return?<br>If so, will it be as a refund on my 2008 return?<br>Or will I not receive anything at all?. <br>I am confused.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311799" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311799" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311799" class="dsq-comment-message">Oracle: If you now qualify for the stimulus (called the "recovery rebate credit" on the 2008 returns), you will receive the stimulus as a form of an addition to your tax refund (or a decrease to the tax you owe).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311800">michele</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311800" class="dsq-comment-message">If I didn\'t do research on this, I would still be clueless to how the stimulus check worked.  The way the govt explained the stimulus package to me is totally different than what I am finding now, now that I am preparing my taxes.  This should have been explained clearly to citizens as to that it was an advance on our tax refunds for 08.  I never heard that spring of 08.  If I would have known that, I would have done something different with the money.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311801">Ricer46</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311801" class="dsq-comment-message">Wrong michele,<br>It turns out that the "rebate" was merely an interest free loan. A $600 rebate results in having to pay an additional $600 in taxes this year unless you earn more than $75K.<br><br><strong>Ed. note: This comment is incorrect.</strong></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311803" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311803" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311803" class="dsq-comment-message">Ricer46: I suggest you read the post at the top of this page and my above comments (in green). <strong>People who received a stimulus check last year DO NOT have to pay "more" taxes.</strong> It is the people who did NOT receive a stimulus check who are eligible to receive that stimulus as a part of their refund (or to reduce the amount of tax they owe).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311802">Ricer46</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311802" class="dsq-comment-message">No, you\'re going to have to pay the $1200 back!<br><br><strong>Ed. note: This comment is incorrect.</strong></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311804">CONFUSED</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311804" class="dsq-comment-message">I am confused. Last year my wife and I received a refund of around $900 from my 2007 return. Our income has not changed this year (everything is exactly the same) but after filling out our 2008 return and putting in the amount of the Economic Stimulus check Turbo Tax says that I owe $55. Before I put in the amount of the Stimulus check my refund was $854. Tell me how this is possible if the Stimulus check is not being deducted from my refund.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311805" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311805" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311805" class="dsq-comment-message">Confused: There are a number of ways that is possible.  There are more variables that come into play than your income.  Take your taxes to a professional if you have questions about your particular tax return.  Most importantly, are you sure that was your *refund* not the stimulus check that was $900 last year?  Basically, what you\'re saying that that your refund *and* your stimulus check were both $900 last year.  If not, you are either comparing apples with oranges or you entered the wrong amount as your *stimulus amount* in this year\'s tax return.  <br><br>Entering $900 as your stimulus payment in the form will result in your supposed refund dropping $900.  Until you enter $900 on that line in Turbo Tax, the software assumes you didn\'t receive a stimulus payment, which according to your note, you did. Ignore Turbo Tax\'s calculations until you are done entering everything on your tax form.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311806">confused</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311806" class="dsq-comment-message">My 2007 refund was $900. My wife and I received a $1500  Economic Stimulus check ($600 for myself, $600 for my wife, and $300 for our son) later that spring so $900 was not the stimulus check. I am not complaining because I will not have to pay back the extra $600. I am just stating that the money received from the stimulus check reduced my 2008 refund. I have been using turbo tax for about five years now because our tax return is fairly simple so I don\'t think it is anything new with my return. The CPA that did our taxes the five years before that did not find any other deductions the first year that I conpaired the two and cost around double what turbo tax costs.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311807" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311807" class="dsq-comment-message">Confused: Perhaps a better way to look at it is that the economic stimulus increased the money you\'ve received (back) from the government overall.  If the economic stimulus (and recovery rebate credit) didn\'t exist, you\'d have the same tax bill this year, owing $55, but you wouldn\'t have received the $1,500 last year. Overall, you\'re not paying anything back, even if year to year, your numbers make it look that way.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311808">Heather</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311808" class="dsq-comment-message">My tax preparer didn\'t figure my refund as being reduced because of the stimulus. The information wasn\'t entered anywhere on the return, and was only used to calculate whether or not I was due a Rebate Recovery Credit. Which I was not. <br><br>Methinks you are entering the amount of your stimulus on the line that ask for how much the Recovery Rebate credit is, and reducing it as a payment already made to you. <br><br>And we all know how much trouble our new Treasury Secretary almost got into for using Turbo Tax. <br>I\'d rather spend the extra money and make sure it\'s right.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311809">becky</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311809" class="dsq-comment-message">I asked a question and it never showed up on here... weird. well Id like to know when people are being reimbursed if they got less than they should have in the stimulus check,<br>For example I got 698 but the calculator says I should have received 900. 600 for me and 300 for my daughter. I did not receive the 202 dollar difference with my regular tax refund. When would I receive it?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311810">Tax Apprentice09</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311810" class="dsq-comment-message">I see that there is a ton of confusion regarding taxes this year. To help simplify this problem I have included some thoughts for you to consider. <br><br>- Tax software included the stimulus rebate as INCOME which it should not be doing, this should have been fixed in many of these applications. If you are noticing that the tax rebate is lowering your tax return, then you should look for an updated application or file your taxes using the IRS tax form. <br><br>- As stated above, do not include the stimulus rebate from last year as INCOME! If you follow the 1040 closely, you will notice that if you do NOT include the stimulus from last year as income that there is no place for the stimulus to lower your return. On the line pertaining to the Recovery Rebate Credit, follow the RRC worksheet in order to determine the amount to list. The chances are that if you received the rebate last year that you will enter a 0 on this line. <br><br>- It pays to consult with a professional tax advisor/preparer because of situations like this. The IRS has rejected over 15% of returns because of these errors. <br><br>- The stimulus was an advance of the RRC that is offerred on this year\'s tax form. It does not need to be paid back and is not a government scheme to rob the American people. Before jumping to conclusions get the correct information.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311811">ricer46</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311811" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s what I thought too initially, but it\'s not so. It\'s just an illusion. There are some who did not file for their rebate last year. If you did not, then you get it this year, if you did, then you don\'t. Turbotax begins by assuming that you did not receive the rebate, and adds $600 to your refund. Then when you tell it that you did get the rebate. it removes it. Unfortunately Intuit does not explain this well at all, but a bit of research will turn up the proper explanation, and yours is not it,</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311812">ricer46</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311812" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I finally figured it out. Thanks.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311813">Tax Apprentice 09</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311813" class="dsq-comment-message">I am sorry that you feel my information is not helpful. I am trying to provide relief to those that believe they are being ripped off. I have completed a number of tax returns this year and none of them have had the problems that people on here are having. I have provided this same information to contacts that completed their taxes by themselves and they found that the online program at the time was wrong (before the updates on certain ones). If you want to get your REAL refund back, then heed the knowledge presented and double check your return instead of relying solely on a third party program (These programs are usually very reliable but the stimulus rebate created confusion in the programming).</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-21311814" href="http://consumerismcommentary.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Flexo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311814" class="dsq-comment-message">Tax Apprentice 09: The information you\'ve provided is helpful. Thank you for sharing. People continue to have questions due to the way online tax preparation software tallies the refund/bill.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311815">Katie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311815" class="dsq-comment-message">Hello. I am very confused about one thing. I did not receive the stimulus payment last year(2008), so I did receive it this year. Is what I received the "rebate recovery credit"? I\'ve also had a few people tell me that I will also receive later in the year 2009\'s stimulus payment. Is this correct? Please someone help me! Thanks! <a href="mailto:ktnicole05@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">ktnicole05@gmail.com</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311816">AnnieKnot</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311816" class="dsq-comment-message">Help has arrived – I will have no financial worries from now on!  As the woman on YouTube predicted, I don’t have to worry any more about paying for my groceries, my gas, or my mortgage!<br><br>As part of the 95% of Americans who will see their taxes reduced and thanks to the largesse of ReidBamaLosi, I am ecstatic to report that I now have $22 more each month than I have had before.  What should I do first?  Pay down my mortgage?  Take that dream trip to New Zealand?  Fund my grandkids’ college?  What else can I do with this windfall of 73 cents per day?  Should I start socking it away right now to start funding the future tax increases that are inevitable?  That would be the patriotic thing to do, right? <br><br>For these golden opportunities, I say thank you, Jesus! No, wait, can’t say that, no reference to religion or God, bad, bad to do that.  So whom do I thank?  Oh yeah, forgot, thank you to my Big Brother, my Government, who now has an endless supply of funds to support me and all of my fellow citizens, and not-so citizens, for the rest of our lives.  An endless supply of money just like the loaves and fishes – no, wait, there I go again with another reference to something, shudder, religious.  Thank you, China!  Your altruistic generosity is inspiring knowing that you expect nothing in return.  Thank you to my dear grandchildren who now have the privilege of paying for this – in more ways than one - for the rest of their lives.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311817">dunobk1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311817" class="dsq-comment-message">ok they say that we do not "pay back" our stimulus payment, but that  is a down right lie... let me explain.. if the stimulus check was an advanced credit towards what i owe on my taxes in 2009 then its exactly that..u would think. for example i payed roughly $4,600 in taxes in 2008, after filing my taxes they figured how much i owed leaving me with a return of $3,700 ok taxes payed right and if the stimulus was simply a credit towards what i owe for 2008 then it should have been used towards that $900 that i owed to taxes.. well the last thing they do at the tax center is ask how much i got from the stimulus check, after entering that number..which was $600.. boom my tax return drops from $3700 to $3100 so if that is not paying back the stimulus payment please tell me what the heck it is. i called the irs and even they could not explain it, the "professional" on the phone said its like gettin 100 points at the start of a school class and at the end if u dont get any points taken away, then you end with zero... what is that crap someone shed some light on the situation please!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311820">peggr</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311820" class="dsq-comment-message">What number did you call to actually talk to someone?  I ended up in auto-attendant hell for 20 minutes and still didn\'t get to talk to anyone.<br><br>thanks,<br>Peg</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311818">Aimee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311818" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with dunobk1.  Our return dropped the EXACT amount we were "given" in that piece of crap stimulus check.  I hate the government, I really do.....</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311819">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311819" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311819" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311819">peggr</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311819" class="dsq-comment-message">We got trapped by the last "tax reduction" in takehome pay in W\'s administration, because even though the withholding was reduced, our tax liability was NOT.  I see this happening again.  We got socked with a huge tax bill for 2008 even though we are both deducting only 1 person, have the normal homeowner  and charity deductions.  Is this going to get even worse with this new so called tax reduction?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311821">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311821" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311821" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311821">Newcomer89</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311821" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311821" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi, this is my first year filing taxes and I am new to the stimulus, I did not recieve that much back, but I was wondering will I be affected by the stimulus? Also I am no longer working. Please reply. Because I thought it was supposed to help us "Poor" people.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-21311823">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-21311823" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-21311823" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-21311823">Damien</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-21311823" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-21311823" class="dsq-comment-message">Did your friend purchase a new home? There is a new home buyers credit for $8000 for both 2008 and 2009 now.</div>\
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	 </li>\
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